WALKING DEAD Season Two Spoilers Unearthed by Director Frank Darabont

Spoiler Warning: The Shawshank Redemption director and showrunner for AMC's apocalyptic zombie drama The Walking Dead, dropped a major spoiler for the second season and revealed an intriguing action sequence.

Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on Robert Kirkman's hugely successful and popular comic book series.

The Walking Dead stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs and Norman Reedus. Executive producers are Frank Darabont, Gale Anne Hurd, Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, and Charles "Chic" Eglee. Jack LoGiudice serves as co-executive producer with Denise Huth as producer. Written by Darabont, Eglee, LoGiudice, Kirkman, Glen Mazzara and Adam E. Fierro.

While speaking with AMC during the chaotic shoots currently taking place under the hot Atlanta sun, director Frank Darabont dropped a major bombshell for non-readers of the source material, confirming what many avid readers knew would eventually happen. "We're fleshing out the story in so many different directions. Once you're into this with real actors playing these characters, the dynamics develop over time from episode to episode. There's so much rich story and character to plunder," said Darabont.

"I don't know if we're giving anything away, but something as simple in the comic books as 'Lori gets pregnant' winds up being sort of a fantastic complication on screen. In the story we're telling, it's just not that simple as it was in the comic book because you have those opportunities to really spin the story out in many different layers," said Darabont.

The showrunner for AMC's Golden Globe and Saturn Award winning zombie apocalypse drama also revealed that he jumped in to direct an action scene involving one of the 'new' characters. "I jumped in and directed a sequence involving T-Dog trying to elude a zombie in a big snarl of abandoned cars on a deserted highway. It's a bit of cat-and-mouse in all the dead traffic, and it was terrific fun to shoot."

Darabont has been serving as second unit director on occasion and wants to fully direct an episode later this season but isn't sure if he has time because of the hasty schedule. "I'm hoping to. You know, being the boss is kinda like being the kid who has to stay in and do homework. Everyone gets to play outside. Yeah, it's hot and miserable, but my God it's fantastic," said Darabont. He did however mention that makeup effects master Greg Nicotero has been serving as a second unit director to great success.

"Greg Nicotero has also greatly contributed as second-unit director. The teaser for episode one is entirely his sequence, and it's our version of the opening of Day of the Dead. Atlanta as it is now, a lot of walkers, a lot of quiet and solitude in the dead city. It's a very cool visual sequence, he did a great job. Greg and I are dyed-in-the-wool horror/zombie geeks, so I know he had a blast doing it," said Darabont.