Jeffrey Dean Morgan never separates from Lucille on the set of Walking Dead: Dead City

The famous bat has evolved and the actor never leaves it!

The terrifying Negan is back.

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City has just started (on OCS via Canal + in France) and Lucille returned shattering in the first episode.

Attention spoilers!

Obviously, we are talking about the famous baseball bat. Not there Luke original – which was burned and broken by Negan in the episode “Here’s Negan” of season 10 – but of a reincarnation of Luke. Offered by Coratfaithful of the old boss, this new version is improved. Very improved. Lucille 2.0 literally balances an electric discharge capable of having an opponent a little too big mouth flout.

The first to pay the price was a New York gang leader who did not want to kneel in front of a “fucking old lean”. Result: a flat -style cartoon flight and a brutal reminder of which gives the orders. “You will fight because I decided”Balance Negan. Curtain.

But why resuscitate this bloody symbol and so (so) traumatic for fans of Walking Dead ? Because Lucille is Glenn’s death!

The showrunner Scott M. Gimpleexecutive producer and boss of Walking Dead Universejustifies in Entertainment Weekly :: “A large part of the series was to see come back the old Negan in one way or another. “ The repentant negan of recent seasons? Interesting. But not iconic. Not legendary.

And to bring it back to full power? Lucille was needed. “You don’t bring Negan without his bat”gimplus slice. And obviously, it’s not just a scriptwriter’s delirium. Jeffrey Dean Morgan himself is mad of Lucille. To the point of keeping it with him on the set, all day: “He loves Lucille deeply. He never leaves her, even when he goes to his lodge. He wins with him. When she was not used, he placed it on a seat. He did not return it to the accessories department. The only time the accessorists recovered it was at the end of the day. “

But this season, another hand than that of Negan will seize Luke. A hand that has A story With her: that of Maggieobviously, the widow Rhee.

For Lauren Cohanactress and combative soul of the series, this moment was special. “Maggie never had a favorite weapon”she said. “Always a knife, a pair of boots … which drags. But I often thought: ‘What would it do?'” And even if it has never been “On the bright side of Lucille, the energy that this bat is released is, for her, undeniable. “

Season 2 of Dead City promises to be a shattering.