Lennie James teases Morgan’s fate on Fear the Walking Dead

When last we saw Morgan (Lennie James) in the season 5 finale of Fear the Walking Dead, he’d been shot and left for dead as a massive horde of walkers was closing in on him. To make matters worse, the season 6 teaser showed Morgan’s eyes were red, hinting that he had either turned into a flesh-eating monster, or that he was at least on his way.

To think that Morgan will be safe because of his headliner status would be silly. After all, AMC has killed plenty of important characters over on The Walking Dead, not to mention slaughtering almost the entire original cast from Fear.

All that being said, what are the chances Morgan survived his ordeal? “I couldn’t possibly comment!” James told NME. “He is a survivor, but in this universe, as it’s been proven over and over again on both The Walking Dead and Fear…, anybody’s time can be called.

"There have been a number of characters that people have said ‘oh, that character can’t die, they’ll be there forever’ and then they’ve gone. Rick and Carl are good examples of that. Nothing’s guaranteed, but maybe Morgan’s time is up — maybe it isn’t. Hopefully we’ll get to see the new season of Fear… and see how that plays out."

True, Rick isn’t actually dead, but he is gone, at least for now:

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season 10 finale of The Walking Dead won’t be aired until later this year. A new spinoff, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, will also debut later than planned. So when can we expect Fear the Walking Dead season 6 to premiere?

“They’ve taken a really bold and brave swing at the way we’re telling the story this season,” James said. “There was a bit more of a sense of the story being told as an anthology, and the episodes being more self-contained. It seemed to me to be very brave, and seemed to be working fantastically. The scripts and storytelling this year is at another level, and it was very exciting to see what they were doing. Hopefully we get to have a chance to finish as much of the season as they were hoping for, because I think the stories that they’re trying to tell and the way they’re trying to tell them is really exciting. I’d love to see the results of that.”

Speaking of character deaths, Vincent Ward — who played Oscar, an inmate at the prison in The Walking Dead season 3 — has revealed he didn’t even know his character was going to die until he found a script lying around the makeup trailer and read it for himself.

“I didn’t even know I was getting killed,” he said in an interview with YouTube channel Commando TV. “I was pissed. And the reason I was pissed was because nobody told me. I was in makeup and I saw a script sitting there, I picked up the script, and the first thing you do is you look for your name. I got all the way to the end, and it said, ‘Oscar dies.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ I grabbed the script and I just threw it down.”

Despite being angry, Ward did allow that AMC gave ample warning that he wasn’t long for the show in his contract. “To their defense, when you sign your contract, they kind of tell you how many episodes you’re gonna do,” he said. “But in my mind, I’m like, ‘Okay, they’ve got me hanging around with the main people now, I might be around a little longer.’ No. It didn’t happen. I hold no grudges. I had a great time… I was a little down afterwards, because I thought I did enough to stay around a little longer.”

We’ll have to wait until later this year to see who dies in The Walking Dead season 10 finale, as well as in Fear the Walking Dead season 6. 2020 has become the year of “wait and see.”

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