When you're 15 years into a franchise, it makes sense to start looking for unusual inspirations to keep things exciting for longtime fans. Ahead of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 3's UK release date, showrunner David Zabel and director Daniel Percival have teased that everything from Clint Eastwood films to the history of the Spanish monarchy influenced the horror show's latest chapter.
"I grew up on the spaghetti westerns, and the Man with No Name movies that Sergio Leone did, and some other directors too, were always in my brain," Zabel tells GamesRadar+. "Once I knew we were going to be in the places where they filmed a lot of those, I thought, 'Let's lean into that even more.' And the story that we were coming up with lent itself to that kind of narrative, too – the sort of 'strangers in town' thing.
