Lucille is back. Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) famous baseball bat (and leather jacket) will return in Season 2 of “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” a teaser at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday. Plus, Negan is whistling again, which can’t be good news for anyone.
“I know, I was really exited too,” Morgan said in Hall H when the audience cheered at the Lucille news. “There’s something about that sweet girl that I love… It makes me turn into Negan.”
He added that this season, “he has a love-hate relationship with her.”
Morgan was joined on stage by Lauren Cohan, Željko Ivanek, Gaius Charles as well as showrunner Eli Jorné and chief content officer Scott Gimple.
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In the first season of “Dead City,” Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) traveled to a decimated Manhattan in search of Maggie’s kidnapped son Hershel (Logan Kim). By the finale, they are all left in very unexpected positions, as is Negan’s former-Savior-turned-nemesis The Croat (Ivanek). Maggie is reunited with her son, and Negan has been handed over to The Croat’s boss, an even bigger villain who we know little about, the Dama (Lisa Emery).
During the conversation, Cohan revealed that she directs an episode of the upcoming season. She shared that moving from actor to directing and executive producing has been a memorable part of her “Walking Dead” journey.
“Coming in Season 1 as an EP… honestly, you’re so excited about taking the character somewhere else and taking the show somewhere else,” Cohan said. “You get to be a part of it. You know things sooner and you can help shape the conversation.”
Cohan and Morgan also discussed Maggie and Negan’s partnership in Season 1 and what’s to be expected of them moving forward.
“It’s the most upside down marriage you can imagine,” Cohan shared on the panel. “We are always on different sides of the coin in so many ways, but we are on the same coin.”
She continued: “The opportunity to explore from that place is so phenomenal for me as an actor and for me getting to work with Jeffrey. I think that this question of will Maggie forgive Negan? Now it gets to become so much more than that. What is forgiveness? What is mercy? What is purpose in life? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? If all of those things can be looked at through the microscope of our relationship and then how it affects my relationship with my son and my outlook on the world, any of us, or the themes in our show. It’s like this endless drill going into the core of the Earth and I’m here for that sweet magma.”
“The Walking Dead: Dead City” also stars Mahina Napoleon as Ginny and Kim Coates as Bruegel. Jorné serves as showrunner and executive producer on the series, which is overseen by Gimple. Cohan and Morgan also serve as executive producers, along with Brian Bockrath.
Watch the teaser for Season 2 below:
