The Hollywood Reporter talked with Robert Kirkman about The Walking Dead season 4 and we find out some interesting details. Here are some of the things we find out from this interview about season 4:

• This season will be much more character-based
• There will be more “remixing” of the comic book material into the show
• There will be another time jump, a few months, between season 3 and 4
• Michonne wants revenge on The Governor for Andrea’s death
• The current storyline in the comic book, with Negan and the Saviors, will not be in the show anytime soon

Here are some quotes from Robert Kirkman from the article, make sure to check out the whole interview via the link below.

It’s a much more character-based story. It’s going to be more focused on who these characters are and what they’re going through.
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We are definitely going in some new directions, and this will continue to be a different take on the material from the comics, but there will possibly be some scenes that are a little bit closer to the comic than we’ve done in the past. Season four probably has the most number of scenes that are adapted directly from the comic series or very close to what we did.
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There’s going to be a bit of a time jump. Some time has passed between season three and season four. It’s only a few months; we’re not nailing down the exact number of days or anything like that. The prison that we see is a very different prison and the characters that we see are very different from the last time we saw them.
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That death (Andrea) is going to loom large over the entire cast. Everyone is still reeling from it. Michonne (Danai Gurira) in particular is going to have quite a bit going on with her because of that loss. As we meet Michonne coming back this season, she’s on a mission to hunt down the Governor. It’s something she’s very obsessed with. It’s big part of her character this season. She did lose Andrea and she lost her because of the Governor. She’s not willing to let that guy go or be out there. It’s something that might possibly be to her detriment, the fact that she’s so dedicated to finding this person. That’s something that very much informs her character this season.
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(About the current storyline in the comic being brought into the show this season) It’s definitely possible, but I wouldn’t count on it. There are very cool things coming up in the comics that we might be desperate to try to work into the show sooner just because we all enjoy them and think they’re cool. I feel like those events and those characters don’t really have weight or aren’t really seen in the proper light if you haven’t done the things leading up to them. There’s some stuff that we’d have to do in the show before we got to the current story line in the comics. That stuff seems like it’s still a ways off.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The part about Michonne wanting to hunt The Governor for revenge sounds interesting and with this they could do something similar as in the comic book, where you could have Michonne get captured and tortured by The Governor and then she tortures him and escapes. Then you could have The Governor attack the prison.

We have a few more months until season 4!