Jeffrey Dean Morgan cast as ‘The Walking Dead’ villain, Negan
Morgan first will join the series as a guest-star before being promoted to series regular for season seven. Morgan was one of multiple actors who had buzz as being in the running at some point for the role, though no others received offers.
Showrunner Scott Gimple previously told THR that introducing Negan would be “challenging,” especially given the character’s penchant for F-bombs. “There’s a particular story in that arc that I’m very excited for. But because we know where we’re going, we have some opportunities to play around with it and put some things in that will lead up to [Negan and Alexandria] in different ways, yet fulfill the story Robert told to the nth degree by utilizing some slightly different approaches: lineups and timelines and the whole nine yards.”
“That’s one of those questions that, any way that I answer, could spoil five different parts of the story,” Gimple told THR when asked why the series potentially may have killed Glenn off versus having his death come via Negan.
“But I hope to show you. We will be showing it. You will be learning the answer to that question as you watch. If I were to answer it now, I would wind up revealing all sorts of stuff from different directions. The lame way of saying it is: You’ll have to see.”
Morgan is currently a series regular on CBS’ The Good Wife, previously starred on season two of the Halle Berry drama, Extant and had a memorable arc on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.
Morgan will play Thomas Wayne in the upcoming Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. He also starred in the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen.
