De legendarisch Special Effect make up artiest Tom Savini (die ook in diverse horror films een rolletje had) heeft in een interview laten door schemeren dat hij heel erg graag de rol van The Governor wilt spelen in de Amerikaanse zombie survival horror serie The Walking Dead. Dit karakter is de ergste bad guy uit de comics, en zal zijn intrede gaan maken in het derde seizoen van de TV show. Maar goed, hier is het hele verhaal:

"Listen," says Savini, who will next appear as a whip-cracking bad guy in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, "I have been campaigning to be the governor on that damn thing with Greg Nicotero for over a year. Everytime I see the graphic novel, and I see a picture of the governor, who looks just like me, I send Greg a picture. I just won't give up. Last time I talked to him about it, when I was in Los Angeles, he said they were going after a name for that part. I said, 'Who?' He said John Hawkes. Well, I never heard of John Hawkes. But then he reminds me that we were in From Dusk Till Dawn together. He is the guy at the beginning in the store that fires on them. Apparently he was up for an Academy Award. He was up for something called Winter's Bone. That's whom they are going after for The Governor. But everyone I talk to, the people that read the graphic novels...They've all said that I would be the perfect governor. Because he is tough and brutal. And...I look just like the graphic depiction of him!"