Scott Gimple In Talks To Become Showrunner Of ‘The Walking Dead’

Late last month, arguably the biggest show on television, The Walking Dead, was unsurprisingly renewed for a fourth season. The news did come with one unexpected tidbit however, that current showrunner Glenn Mazzara would be leaving the show.

This of course, wasn’t the first time this happened on the The Walking Dead. In production of show’s second season, then showrunner and director of The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont quit the series, leaving Mazzara to take over.

The web has been ripe with speculation of who would be taking Mazzara’s place once his duties were complete, and it looks like we now may have an answer. Scott Gimple, a current writer and supervising producer on the series is in final talks for the promotion.

If that name sounds familiar to you, it should! Scott sat down with Jonathan back in March to talk Walking Dead, Ghost Rider, and plenty of other worthy topics! Listen to the episode if you haven’t, and let us know how you feel about the new (likely) showrunner!

The Walking Dead (and Walking Dead Weekly) return on February 10th!

Source: Variety