Upcoming “twists and turns” in The Walking Dead universe include a Rick and Michonne spin-off
Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira made a surprise Comic-Con appearance to announce a limited series
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The Walking Dead’s flagship series may be coming to a close with its eleventh season, but there’s plenty more to devour. At Friday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel showcasing members of the cast and crew, surprise guests Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira showed up to confirm a long-rumored, highly anticipated spin-off: a Walking Dead limited series for Rick and Michonne, to air on AMC in 2023.
Considering the drama’s leading man Rick Grimes never received the bloody and/or heroic death typical of characters on this long-running series, and Michonne’s departure last season served to, well, go make sure he’s alive, fans have long speculated their stories aren’t finished. A six-episode limited series, featuring Lincoln and Gurira as both stars and executive producers, will now replace the three Rick-centered original films that producers had previously announced were in the works. While they and the other panelists in Hall H didn’t reveal details, a synopsis has been unveiled via AMC:
This series presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive—or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Comic-Con attendees were treated to two back-to-back Walking Dead panels, both moderated by superfan and Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick. Writer-producers Scott Gimple and Channing Powell were on hand to preview Tales Of The Walking Dead, the anthologized series premiering August 14 that features one-off stories set within the walker apocalypse (with the sick tagline “6 Different Stories, 1 Dead World”) starring Terry Crews, Danny Ramirez, Parker Posey, and more. Although not directly impacting The Walking Dead’s overall timeline, Tales will include a prequel tale for Alpha, as actor Samantha Morton confirmed, despite the fan-favorite villain now going by the name Dee. “Dee is who Alpha was before she becomes Alpha,” teased Morton. “But she’s also always Alpha, she’s always there—we are who we are.”
Kicking off the bittersweet final Comic-Con panel for the original Walking Dead series, showrunner Angela Kang promised the remaining episodes will be “really emotional. And there are big twists and turns.” Cast members on hand to bring those emotions (read: turn on the waterworks) included Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, Lauren Ridloff, Judy Fleming, and Michael James Shaw.
Executive producer Greg Nicotero, who directed many of the series’ first episodes and has returned to helm its conclusion, addressed their hordes of fans: “Directing the finale, I felt all of the weight of the expectation of every person in this room. Everybody rolled up their sleeves and said we have an obligation to the fans. We did it.” The Walking Dead will begin staggering to its finale October 2 on AMC and streaming on AMC+.
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Without each other, are they even alive—or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?It has been years since I watched The Walking Dead or any of its spinoffs but wasn’t the whole revelation early on in the series that because people who die naturally turn into zombies, the living humans are as much the walking dead as the zombified humans? Or am I misremembering?
Yep. It happens some time while they’re in the prison, possibly before they even come across the Governor. Rick says, “we are the walking dead.” Well, in the comic it does. I watched the show after I read the book, and yet I don’t remember how it went in the show.
IIRC, Rick revealed what the doctor told him at the CDC at the end of season two. I don’t remember if Rick said the line then.
Nah it was later it was after the cannibals. I dont remember what they were doing but I know it wasnt the times you mentioned here. I vaguely remember this being a time when Carol ran threw some compound on a killing spree wearing a cloak. And she had been gone for awhile and it was a surprise return. It was an episode or two after that.
He said the line in Season 5 in the barn during the storm.
It happened before the prison, right after they fled the farm in the season 2 finale. Rick told the group what Jenner at the CDC whispered to him before the place blew up.
You know, I never connected it so literally—when I hit Rick’s “we are the walking dead” speech in the comic I thought it was about losing humanity and all, but I guess it works both ways. But in any case, here they mean if you have to do inhuman things to survive are you human, and so on.
How in all the seven hells is anyone still watching any of these shows?
I’m watching the main show still only to get to the end. No way in hell will I be continuing on with any spinoffs.
Are you enjoying it? Is it just for completeness’ sake? I gave up after Glenn died (the second time), and I thought I’d held in long after I should’ve.
I’m liking the original show again in this last season, but for awhile there I hated the series so much I couldn’t watch it. The thing that’s shocked me the most is how I like Neegan now. I couldn’t stand Neegan in his first few seasons on TWD.
I’m watching for completeness’ sake. I don’t enjoy it, but I came this far, I might as well stick around to see how they fuck up the ending.
More power to you. I was at that point years ago, and I simply marvel at how many people are sticking it out.
It’s really a hostage situation at this point.
Oh god no I absolutely hate it. The plots are all the same recycled garbage for the 5th or 6th time, and the characterizations and motivations of people make absolutely no sense and are wildly inconsistent. But it’s almost over now.
I’m going to give the Neegan-Maggie show a try. I like the chemistry/interaction between the two of them. I’ll also give the Rick and Michonne show a try.
Because we love it !!! lol I cant wait for All the spinoffs ..<3 !!!
Getting closer on Rick’s storyline is nice. And that TALES OF show is an interesting idea, although far too late in the game. That should’ve been what FEAR been with a series of different stories in the height of the outbreak/downfall of humanity.
None of it is ‘interesting’. It’s all regurgitated cash-grab nonsense.
So is this separate from the Rick Grimes film or what that morphed into?
I remember when I was so, so excited for this show.
It’s wild that I too feel nostalgic for that time yet here we are being like “What? More spinoffs, groan”
I haven’t watched in a while. Did they find Heath yet?
Just from that CC header pic, I know who I’d vote for if they ever do a Grace Jones biopic. I know she’s in her 40’s but she could pull it off.
#BringBackShane
“Now, Andrew, I know we’ve kept you on the hook for four years, but how about…another series? Like a British show, though, so only six episodes. We guarantee a second season just to make it up to you.”