I can’t speak for how the other parts of that wild and mildly hilarious sequence will get brought to live-action, but Carl revealing his canyon of an eye socket is part of what softens Negan’s attitude towards the vengeful teen.
There’s no guaranteeing things will play out the same way, but here’s a taste of Negan’s comic reaction, which is a definitely face that we haven’t see Jeffrey Dean Morgan make yet.
Unless this moment will somehow got majorly altered in the page-to-screen adaptation, we will likely see a fairly lengthy conversation and bonding moment between Negan and Carl when the younger Grimes makes his presence known inside The Sanctuary.