(cheers and applause)

- Welcome to Hall H's day two of Comic Con.

Oh my gosh.

It's so much good stuff.

- [Woman] We love you, Chris!

- I love you, too!

(audience laughs)

Welcome to The Walking Dead panel,

which is technically The Talking Dead panel

if you want to be technical about it.

(audience cheers)

So just a couple of announcements.

First of all, the season six premiere

is the largest episode to date.

654 walker extras used during shooting,

second only to the pilot.

And you can see the episode of season six

when it premieres,

Sunday, October 11th at 9 p.m.

(audience cheers)

I want to point out this will be a 90 minute premiere.

(audience cheers) So, yes.

And then Talking Dead will be on at 10:30

right after that.

Also, we're gonna do a Talking Dead

season six preview special hosted by me

on Sunday, August 23rd at 8 p.m.,

during which we will give more exclusive first looks

at what's in store for the season.

Also, there's gonna be...

You can catch up on your seasons one through five

with "5 Sundays/5 Seasons" marathon.

Each Sunday, AMC will air a single season of the series

beginning Sunday, July 26th at 2:30 pm.,

so just cancel everything now.

Don't go anywhere.

Invite people over or board up your doors.

And that is through Sunday, August 23rd.

But most importantly,

I want to thank you guys,

because without the fans and the fandom,

first of all, my show wouldn't exist,

you all wouldn't be here,

I wouldn't be able to bring these people out here

and show this to you, so thank you so much

for supporting Walking Dead.

(audience applauds and cheers)

We wanted to change things up a little bit,

and so we pulled in a bunch of questions from social to ask.

So it's not just me blabbing up here.

I will be blabbing with your questions.

So I have some lists of those.

But first, let's just get into this.

I am very happy to show you the first look

at the official trailer for season six.

(audience applauds and cheers)

Your 2015 Walking Dead cast.

(audience applauds and cheers)

Take pictures.

So everyone please have a seat.

Let's get into this.

So Kirkman, as you know,

the poor man fell a bit ill,

and he was not able to attend Comic Con this year,

so he's now here in T-shirt form--

- [Greg Nicotero] Yeah, he's here.

- And mask form, yeah.

- [Scott Gimple] Yes, now, and hand me one of those.

- [Greg] He's actually here,

and any questions that come up--

- I kind of prefer these versions.

Can we just take these (laughs)?

Thank you very much.

- [Greg] Pass them on down.

- Everyone have one?

We should definitely throw one of these into the audience.

(audience cheers)

- [Scott] So, okay, before we get started, right?

Let's do this.

How big is Hall H?

- About 7,000.

- [Scott] 7,000 people.

(audience cheers)

Now it would be great...

Hello, Hall H.

(audience cheers)

It would be great to have the premiere somewhere

that could hold this many people.

- Right.

- [Scott] It would be even better

if we could hold it somewhere that would hold

twice as many people.

- [Chris] Right.

- [Scott] It would be thrice better,

if it could hold about

two and a half amount of this people.

- Where are you going with this math problem?

- [Scott] The Walking Dead premiere

is going to Madison Square Garden.

(audience applauds and cheers)

In October,

all these people can conceivably come if--

- [Gale Anne Hurd] With their friends and families.

- [Scott] With friends, family, loved ones, well wishers.

Go to www,

that's hhtp.

- Please do the whole URL, yeah.

- [Scott] Backslash, backslash.

- No, forward slash, forward slash.

- [Scott] Www, AMC.

- Backslash is for local files.

(Chris and audience laughs)

- [Scott] Amcthewalkingdead.com.

Come join us in New York in October

for the biggest premiere yet.

- Yes, amazing.

Thank you for this.

(audience cheers)

I think that section back there's like,

"Shit, we don't live in New York."

But you guys, this is amazing.

Madison Square Garden is about 20,000 people,

so that is the best way.

Cause even just seeing you guys react to the trailer,

and understand most of us watch this on computer screens.

So to see it in a room like this with a screen like this

with a crowd of everyone freaking out,

it's definitely an experience.

We really appreciate it.

So, I'm gonna launch into fan questions.

- [Scott] Before you do that, I just want Robert

to react to everybody watching it on a computer screen.

Waaaah!

(audience laughs)

Okay, sorry.

- I just want to react.

This is Robert reacting to anybody.

Waaaah!

All right, so let's get into this.

This is from R-vincap.

Will, this is for the producers.

Will season six explore a power struggle

between Rick and Morgan?

It kind of seemed like that from the trailer we saw.

Or will it more so be portrayed as a fundamental challenge

to the way Rick has always been leading the group?

- [Scott] Oh, my.

Well, it certainly seemed that we were

selling that in the trailer.

I will say that this is a savvy audience

that knows that we sometimes play

with the truth in trailers.

- Right.

- [Scott] What?

It's true.

It's true.

But it's just to maintain the experience for everybody.

I would say that Rick

absolutely is faced with challenges

to the way he does things.

And also including these people

in the way that he does things.

At the end of season six,

he wanted everybody on board with him,

and everything went very well in those last few moments,

up until--

- Well, except for the dickhead that he shot.

- [Scott] Except for the porch dick.

- Yep (chuckles).

I'm so glad that became a thing.

- [Scott] Yeah, that's you.

- No, it's not me.

- [Scott] No, really.

- No, of course, it's not me.

- [Scott] No, no, it's you.

- Oh, I said it, but then that poor guy

has to live with that the rest of his life.