'It's only gonna get more crazy!': The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan teases second-half shockers in mid-season preview 

By Dailymail.com Reporter

Published: 18:24 EST, 2 February 2017 | Updated: 18:41 EST, 2 February 2017

A preview for the second-half of The Walking Dead's seventh season features soundbites from the show's cast and producers looking back at what's occurred, and ahead at what's to come, as the show hits a crucial point in its storyline. 

The preview also included new shots of the season seven action. 

'It's been an interesting journey, the first half of [season] seven,' said Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays the bat-wielding villain Negan. 'And it's only gonna get more crazy.'

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Batter up: The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan promises a strong second-half for the program in a new preview AMC released Thursday

Slight understatement? Morgan, who plays power-mad villain Negan, said, 'It's been an interesting journey, the first half of seven'

Reign of terror: Much of season seven so far has focused on Negan's bloodthirsty dominance

The first eight episodes of the season - which kicked off with the gruesome killings of Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) and Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun) - spent much time establishing to viewers Negan's dominance over Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his group of zombie apocalypse survivors.

Another key element was 'the audience finding their way forward from an incredible trauma, according to executive producer Scott M. Gimple, while Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Sasha Williams, explained the dilemma Rick's minions find themselves in.

'We have to grieve, we're in mourning,' she said. 'But at the same time we have to pick up the pieces and figure out how we move forward.'

Comeback: Cast member Sonequa Martin-Green said that the entire season shows how the resilient the survivors can be 

No more: Danai Gurira said that the survivors are not built 'to cater to this oppressive tyranny' Negan has brought about

Metamorphosis: Gurira said that the survivors adjustments to the new reality was a prevailing theme of season seven's first half 

Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne, added that the season's first half dealt with the show's characters 'making an adjustment to who you are in the wake of [disaster] and how you piece yourself together. And can you?'

In a nod to the season's second-half, Gurira added, 'It's not how [Rick's] group is built, to cater to this oppressive tyranny.'

Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes, one of the show's chief protagonists, said that his character evolves as Negan's atrocities continue to stack up.

Armed and dangerous: Andrew Lincoln said that his character, Rick Grimes, comes to realize there is no living under Negan in the show's seventh season  

'An untenable situation': It's clear from the preview that Negan (left) and Rick (right) are on a collision course in the season's second-half

'It begins with a man being obedient and going out of his way and risking his life for Negan in order to preserve life in Alexandria,' he said. 'But throughout, there are a succession of moments that change his mind and makes him realize that this is an untenable situation.

'There is this moment of optimism ... that this is the beginning of the resistance.'

The Walking Dead airs Sunday, February 12th on AMC at 9/8c.  

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