The Walking Dead season 10, which sees the conflict between the settlements and the Whisperers come to a head, ended on a cliffhanger in April. Episode 15, titled “The Tower,” saw what remained of Alexandria, the Hilltop, and Oceanside take refuge in a hospital as Beta led a massive walker horde to obliterate his enemies. The episode ended with Beta approaching the hospital and bringing “certain doom” to our heroes.
The finale was originally set to air on April 12 before it was delayed. At the time, executive producer and director Greg Nicotero explained to us that the episode had to be delayed to give the team enough time to complete post-production. Unsurprisingly, the coronavirus studio shutdowns had made this very difficult to accomplish.
“I mean, the trick with post-production that a lot of people don’t realize is there’s so many little refinements and last-minute embellishment,” Nicotero explained. It makes sense considering the epic scale of the final battle between the settlements and the Whisperers, a clash that looks to be on par with Game of Throne‘s “The Long Night.”
“You have to do post-production sound, and you have to do music, and then you have to go in and do color timing to make sure that every shot in a scene is color timed the same way so that they look all look like it’s coming from the same scene,” Nicotero told us. “There are quality checks that you have to do, to make sure there’s not like a Starbucks cup in the shot, or whatever. There’s a lot of those little fine-tuning elements that all happen within two to three weeks of delivering the episode to the network.”
Several months later, it seems like that post-production work is on the way to being done. “A Certain Doom” is currently set for release later this year and hopefully the upcoming panel will give us a bit more clarity on that.
