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Post by Ripley on Oct 27, 2016 18:32:14 GMT -5
"...THR: Where do Negan and Rick go from here? This is not just a reset for Rick's group with these big losses but a season of world building with multiple communities. JDM: ... first episode is a good indication of what's to come. Where Negan and Rick go from here is going to be a bit of a chess game for a while. Negan is a move or two ahead of Rick right now....Negan is just starting the breaking-in process of Rick...He's going to stay on top of Rick for a while to make sure it sticks. THR: You've said that that you don't view Negan as a villain. Given that Rick killed 20 Saviors in season six, how did you approach Negan's first encounter with his group? JDM: This is Negan's stage and he's a bit of a showman. So when we first see him in episode 16 last year when he steps out of that RV, there's a bit of a show he's putting on for these guys. He has a tendency to milk these moments and he does it for maximum impact, with all of them kneeling before him. That continued Sunday [with the season-seven premiere]. This is part of Negan's thought process of breaking them and he's going to milk this moment first because he's P.T. Barnum and he is running the greatest show on earth and he enjoys that. It's a lot of mental games that he's going to play with the survivors and what we're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg....as we move forward we'll get to know Negan more —in those scenes you'll get to know his charisma and wit a little bit more. ...THR: Negan takes Daryl with him back to the Saviors' compound. What does Negan see in Daryl? JDM: Negan admires that Daryl hit him and sees him as someone that could be a good right-hand man. His intention is to break Daryl and have him become one of his guys, which makes sense. After what Negan does in that lineup, he knows where he's got Rick at a certain point. But he sees something in Daryl and is going to take advantage of that. It's a chess game and Negan is going to do anything he can to get the advantage. Negan having Daryl makes Rick think, too. Negan is playing a couple cards, and you can look at it a couple different ways. Negan always has a couple balls in the air and Daryl is one of them. THR: Do you think there's a potential to see Daryl take over Dwight's (Austin Amelio) role as his right-hand man? JDM: That's the immediate goal, sure. That's the whole purpose of this thing: Negan is going to make Daryl his guy, otherwise why would he take him? link
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Post by Starlight on Oct 27, 2016 18:57:56 GMT -5
Another cast member completely out of touch with the fan base.
" Last year, all they were screaming at is they wanted to see somebody's head bashed in."
This isn't what people were complaining about.It was the show hyping the whole Negan shit,since the year before. And in the last moment they did a bloody cliffhanger, as a ploy for high ratings for the season 7 premiere.
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Post by MorganBGone on Oct 28, 2016 8:08:05 GMT -5
Until JDM, I didn't think anyone could win the title of "most in need of a solid layer of duct tape over his mouth" from GN, but this guy's putting up quite the challenge.
No, Negan's not a villain. He's only taking, via threat, half of the goods of multiple communities, making the girlfriends/wives of other men his wives (and, at a guess, controlling their appearance, etc, in addition to using coercion to get them into that position in the first place), burning the faces of his own people, etc. Those are things normal, nice people do. Rick hurt him first... Which erases all the OTHER stuff he has done anyway. What are fans thinking giving him such a mean label??
It's bad enough when an actor/character is overexposed. It's infinitely worse when what comes out of the actor's mouth is ridiculous and even insulting to fans.
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Post by dark sister on Oct 28, 2016 8:42:43 GMT -5
I loved JDM's casting until he started speaking.
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Post by deadhead on Oct 28, 2016 8:58:12 GMT -5
JDM is turning out to be a bigger than Negan.
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Post by Starlight on Oct 28, 2016 9:21:30 GMT -5
As the Negan's character is loved in the comics. I think JDM automatically thinks that will translate with the fans / GA. While ignoring that the GA / non-comic fans and comics fans are completely different breeds. Also the writing on the show is alot to be desired. Also has Negan is live in the comics, he probably thinks his character is completely save.
JDM confirm here that the show will be doing the Negan/ wives arc.
What's his relationship like with women? Is his brutality toward women and taking multiple wives something you can do on AMC?
We're going to try. We're not going to lose who Negan is in the comic books because we're on television. It's a tightrope. If you're a fan of the comics, you know his feeling toward women and his wives. There's so much story to tell with Negan and this year is so packed with making The Walking Dead world explode into such a large place as opposed to what it's been in the past six years. There's a lot to get to and we want to remain as loyal as we can to what Kirkman created. My thought on that question is yeah, we're going to try and encompass all of that, including his relationships with women and how he treats them.
I'm dreading how this is going to translate on the show. Because the writing on this show is BS, when it comes to tackling serious issues.
We saw the line from Rick to Jessie a DV victim, when she asked if he would do the same for anyone else and he said " No" or when Rick asked Carol a DV survivor why she wanted to help Jessie. And now we will see Morgan joke about bodyslamming Carol.
The Negan/ Wives arc has disaster written all over it.
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Post by poisonivy on Oct 28, 2016 9:49:41 GMT -5
Oh honey, stop talking.
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Post by Meggo358 on Oct 28, 2016 10:39:25 GMT -5
As the Negan's character is loved in the comics. I think JDM automatically thinks that will translate with the fans / GA. While ignoring that the GA / non-comic fans and comics fans are completely different breeds. Also the writing on the show is alot to be desired. Also has Negan is live in the comics, he probably thinks his character is completely save. JDM confirm here that the show will be doing the Negan/ wives arc. What's his relationship like with women? Is his brutality toward women and taking multiple wives something you can do on AMC?
We're going to try. We're not going to lose who Negan is in the comic books because we're on television. It's a tightrope. If you're a fan of the comics, you know his feeling toward women and his wives. There's so much story to tell with Negan and this year is so packed with making The Walking Dead world explode into such a large place as opposed to what it's been in the past six years. There's a lot to get to and we want to remain as loyal as we can to what Kirkman created. My thought on that question is yeah, we're going to try and encompass all of that, including his relationships with women and how he treats them. I'm dreading how this is going to translate on the show. Because the writing on this show is BS, when it comes to tackling serious issues. We saw the line from Rick to Jessie a DV victim, when she asked if he would do the same for anyone else and he said " No" or when Rick asked Carol a DV survivor why she wanted to help Jessie. And now we will see Morgan joke about bodyslamming Carol. The Negan/ Wives arc has disaster written all over it. The wives situation might really be what makes this season tank (and can I just tell you how much I cringe at the idea of "so much story to tell" regarding negan?) - this could possibly produce so much negativity and will inevitably be handled about a delicately as anything else, meaning not at all, that even more people will join the "Quitters Club" - this kind of stuff, combined with my complete disinterest in negan and Daryl is why I'll be skipping right over the sanctuary stuff
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Post by buttercup on Oct 28, 2016 12:01:02 GMT -5
You guys are right, he needs to stop talking. When he was saying in an interview earlier in the week that if the show had started with Negan instead of Rick, Rick would be the bad guy. I can see that to an extent. IF Rick was sadistic like Negan. Sure, Rick cut people up in a church but he didn't laugh over it and got great, gross joy out of it. It was revenge and survival. Negan LOVED bashing those two heads to pulp. THERE is the difference in my eyes. I do not remember a time when Rick was taking pleasure in killing his enemies. And I am not a fan of Rick's at all. I think JDM is conveniently forgetting how sadistic Negan is. And nothing they give me in his back story will change my mind.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 28, 2016 15:27:27 GMT -5
I dread the wives issue in one sense because seeing that on screen doesn't interest me. From a fandom perspective however, I am thrilled they will show it so the stans who argue that JDM's "bangability" outweighs his acts and swear he is not a rapist will finally see for themselves. I tire of seeing "Negan is not a rapist because he killed the guy who tried to rape Holly." Well being a rapist, IMHO, includes forcing women through emotional abuse or fear, concern over their loved ones (husbands, boyfriends) or to stay alive and eat. So that does make Negan a rapist to me. MorganBGone walkingdeadrules
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Post by walkingdeadrules on Oct 28, 2016 22:22:28 GMT -5
Something about this is very reminiscent of the whole Laurie Holden defending Andrea's indefensible actions to me. I can sort of understand where he is coming from in that NEGAN probably doesn't see himself as a villain, but the things Negan is doing are certainly villainous and to the extent they show him as a rapist(which they have not as of yet in fariness) then to have even made that statement knowing what is coming is preposterous. For an actor to say that they don't see him as a villain....well...I guess we all have different morals but his are in a whole different stratosphere
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Oct 28, 2016 23:27:49 GMT -5
So a rapist, baseball bat wielding narcissist isn't a villain?
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Post by Ripley on Oct 29, 2016 9:25:30 GMT -5
I bet, if I were playing a character I loved who was bringing me fame , fortune (and a big fortune via Cons, magazine shoot $, commericals in Asia possibly even ), I ,too would find a way to see my character as not a villain. I'd likely repeat the oh so Gimplesque "Well if we'd been following Negan instead of Rick..." "logic (I snorted there, loudly too) . It does have that same feel as we saw with Laurie Holden re Andrea - that she and now he are almost talking themselves into believing it. Great point walkingdeadrules . That said, I am not buying the malarky spewed and no, not excited personally for Negan, although it is great than his fans are.
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