The war has begun on The Walking Dead. When it concludes, there will be a major decision coming on behalf of the writers.

As the story goes in Robert Kirkman's comics, the issues following the All Out War arc see a major time jump of what is estimated to be about two years time. A definitive amount of time is never revealed but it's significant enough for Alexandria to have established a real civilization.

Rick actor Andrew Lincoln has already teased the time jump coming to the live action adaptation on AMC while talking to ComicBook.com in an exclusive interview. "Also, maybe in a couple of episodes time, there may be a jump ahead in the curve and maybe setting themselves to that job at hand," Lincoln said. UP NEXT: Ranking TWD Season 7 Episodes

Now, showrunner Scott Gimple and writer/creator Robert Kirkman have weighed in during a chat with THR. "For the people who read the comics, they're going to be expecting this," Gimple said. "We're doing the book, we do all sorts of variations on it, and then we do things that are inspired by it and then we change things up with a remix. But I will say there are things that happen in that time jump that are referred to that are super interesting. And thus we might see some of that stuff; it might not be the same sort of jump, or we'll do that two to five years in real time."