Alright, let me start off by saying that I have seen so much false information about the Lucille scene and have been a bit of a lurker on reddit. Well I'm coming out of my shell because I can't sit by and watch everyone's dreams get crushed when it's still a almost a week away and you will want to save the soul crushing for when it airs. You can believe me or not I don't care, but I was present when this scene was being shot back in November and was part of the production team.
This is the biggest moment in the franchise and let me tell you, Kirkman, Gimple, and even JDM (JDM by the way is going to absolutely hit this role out of the park. His passion for the role was extremely contagious and caused the rest of the cast to elevate their performance) were really trying their best to get AMC to let a few "fucks" slide during the live viewing. But sadly, it doesn't appear that's going to happen because for some reason AMC does not want to tread those waters (Breaking bad had some fucks so it's not entirely clear to me).
But fear not, like Nicotero and JDM have said, they are going to give you as close to 'full octane" negan as possible on the blu ray releases. Since most of Negan's scenes are going to be fimlmed a couple of different ways like when Rick said "they're fucking with the wrong people" on the blu ray. So lets get back to the Lucille scene shall we?
First of all I want to say that this scene does NOT end with a cliffhanger. If you look at this footage here
https://vimeo.com/146156494 (which is 100% real by the way) you'll notice something. Now if there has been anyone who has seen the full episode (which I highly doubt) the fade to black they are most likely talking about is after that swing, but if you look the scene comes back with a long look at JDM doing the famous "taking it like a champ!" line. Another thing I want to be clear about is this post from earlier
https://www.reddit.com/r/thewalkingdead/comments/4cb3gu/future_spoilers_possible_script_leak_for_s/
That is 100000% percent fake, Negan's dialogue in that scene is not a word for word copy of the comic book. Gimple and Kirkman were very very adamant about not making this scene a carbon copy of the comic's scene in order to surprise comic book readers as well. They are trying to recapture the feelings you got from reading issue #100 for the first time. Now there definitely are lines from the comic scene, but it isn't a 1 to 1 copy of it with all of the "fucks" replaced.
Bottom line is you WILL know who gets Lucilled as the scene is shot from different angles. You will see a mix of both PoV shots and different angled shots. While the scene is not as gory as it's comic book counter part but It's still horrifying and heart pounding. Oh, and what's cool is with each swing Negan takes, if you look closely you can see chunks and blood of the victims heads on Lucille's barbed wire so definitely look out for that. But bear in mind in order to preserve the surprise I am not going to reveal who get's Lucilled in this post or via PM...you'll thank me later.
To clear another couple of things up, the cliffhanger comment by Lauren Cohan isn't incorrect. It's possible that she's talking about a scene where morgan and carol meet the armored man from S06EP15 as he comes in after morgan and carol kill a saviour along with some walkers and offers aid to carol (and Morgan stole his horse). He tells them that he's from a place called the kingdom and then the episode ends. Not sure if they moved this to an after credits scene or not because a lot of editing can happen.
Also, while it may be possible that they cut the Lucille scene to more of a cliffhanger during the editing process, I really highly doubt it. It would be extremely out of place and would totally destroy the flow and impact of that scene. Gimple, Nicotero, and Kirkman didn't get where they are by being idiots.
Another reason why it wouldn't make any sense for it to end on a cliffhanger like that is because we couldn't even keep JDM's casting a secret which is what the plan was. You guys weren't even suppose to know that Negan was going to appear this season much less who was playing him. This happened because one of the people in the crew sold the story to the media about JDM getting the job. Next episode was being set up to be a gigantic surprise. So there's absolutely no way anyone expects to be able to hide who Negan kills for a whole 7 months. Like I said, they aren't idiots. You can guarantee the price will be paid.
I'll try to answer any questions if you guys have any. But like I said, I will not reveal who get's Lucille'd at all. It's too fun and crazy of a scene to just give away and I can't do it!
