From the return of Rick and Michonne to the reteaming of Daryl and Carol, right here’s what you want to know in regards to the state of AMC’s zombie apocalypse.
Revealed on October 21, 2024
The Strolling Useless is useless. Lengthy stay The Strolling Useless!
Regardless of the flagship sequence airing its ultimate episode in November 2022, the Strolling Useless franchise stays alive and properly within the type of a litany of various spinoff reveals. There are a number of variations of The Strolling Useless in some type of lively standing, whereas phrase persists that there are different entries within the sequence based mostly on Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s award-winning comedian books nonetheless within the works. For now, right here’s the lineup of what’s on proper now, what’s developing and what’s been introduced.
This story initially posted October 2023 and will likely be up to date.
‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ and ‘The Book of Carol’
Initially, the Norman Reedus-led spinoff The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon was supposed to co-star Melissa McBride as Carol, the veritable Sarah Connor of the Strolling Useless universe. As an alternative, McBride took time away from the world of the walkers, sitting out of the primary season of Daryl Dixon, save for cameo contributions. Now, not solely is she again for season two, she’s introduced her very personal title to the title, as AMC formally introduced the sequence’ second 12 months underneath the subtitle, The Guide of Carol.
The primary season of Daryl Dixon adopted — you guessed it — Daryl Dixon, venturing from America all the best way to France. The sequence leaned into Parisian iconography, together with a struggle scene set beside the Eiffel Tower, in addition to a wise use of the Paris Catacombs to delineate this nook of the zombie apocalypse from its American counterpart. Season two’s Guide of Carol sees Carol enter the combination, ostensibly to deliver Daryl house, but additionally doubtless to wind up on myriad European jaunts together with her post-apocalypse bestie. (They’ve friendship bracelets. It’s cute!) The second season filmed in Europe as a part of an settlement between the AMC and SAG-AFTRA, and premieres Sept. 29, 2024. And the sequence has already been renewed for a 3rd season — with each of them on board — and set to movie in Spain.
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2
AMC took an enormous swing with its first main Strolling Useless successor. Okay, might have phrased that higher, contemplating it’s the present starring baseball bat-wielding unhealthy man (reformed) Negan, performed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and “The Widow” Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan). Archenemies turned reluctant allies, the primary season of The Strolling Useless: Useless Metropolis targeted on Negan and Maggie journeying throughout Manhattan in a bid to save Maggie’s son from a deranged enemy often called The Croat (Zeljko Ivanek, including yet one more scenery-chewing villain to his spectacular rolodex).
Useless Metropolis was proof of idea that extra life existed throughout the Strolling Useless universe following the flagship’s ending. Not solely did the drastic change of location serve the sequence properly (even when native New Yorkers might inform simply how a lot was shot throughout the Hudson River in New Jersey), however the resetting of two acquainted faces with historic historical past between them proved a worthy manner into a brand new story with outdated roots. The sequence was renewed for a second season in July 2023, with a premiere deliberate for spring 2025.
When selling the present’s return at New York Comedian Con, the celebrities and creatives teased what awaits fan-favorite characters Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) as they navigate a post-apocalyptic Manhattan. “When we came to do season 11, we knew the [original] show would either go on for four more years and we would essentially take over the old show, or we would go and do this new show, and that would be in New York,” Cohan mentioned of the seeds of Useless Metropolis. “They came to us both about doing like a Negan show and a Maggie show and then I think Scott was like, ‘What about the two of y’all? We all thought that that made the most sense because these are two characters that you would never expect to even be in the same room, much less go and do a spinoff and have to spend real time together.”
‘The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’
Alternately often called The Strolling Useless: TOWeL (if not by everybody, actually on my own and my Strolling Useless podcast colleagues), The Ones Who Stay facilities the long-awaited reunion between two of essentially the most pivotal gamers in your complete franchise: Rick Grimes and Michonne, the long-lost lovers performed by Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira. Initially designed as a sequence of characteristic movies, Rick and Michonne’s story was retooled for a restricted sequence format and launched in February 2024. The ending (learn spoilers right here) begged the query: the place does the franchise go from right here?
Set after Michonne’s season 10 choice to depart her group and discover her presumed-dead husband Rick, The Ones Who Stay takes its title from an adage the central characters used to maintain one another afloat in the course of the darkest days of The Strolling Useless. They’ve their work reduce out for them in their very own restricted sequence, with the arrival of tv veteran Terry O’Quinn stepping in as an antagonist named Beale. Moreover, Pollyanna McIntosh returns as Jadis, the character who saved Rick’s life and exited him from the present again in season 9; in returning for The Ones Who Stay, Jadis turns into one in all solely three important characters who has appeared in three completely different Strolling Useless spinoffs, having additionally appeared in The Strolling Useless: World Past. The opposite character she ties with? None aside from Rick himself, in addition to the co-star of one other lively Strolling Useless sequence…
‘Fear the Walking Dead’: The Remaining Season
After eight seasons, the Strolling Useless franchise’s first spinoff aired six ultimate episodes in 2023 to deliver Concern the Strolling Useless to a detailed. The primary half of season eight noticed the departure of Morgan Jones, performed by franchise veteran Lennie James throughout each Concern and the flagship Strolling Useless. Along with his story concluded, the ultimate six Concern installments caused an finish the story of Madison Clark (Kim Dickens), the sequence’ unique protagonist, seemingly killed off in season 4, solely to return on the finish of season seven.
In these ultimate episodes, Madison takes the highlight, with a possibility to shut the curtain on the character from co-creator and unique Concern showrunner Dave Erickson’s first three seasons: Madison; daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), whose destiny remained in flux after departing the sequence in season seven); Daniel Salazar (Ruben Blades), one in all Madison’s solely remaining day one allies; and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo), conspicuously absent within the ultimate run up to now, following a tough pivot towards supervillain standing in season seven.
‘Tales of the Walking Dead’ and ‘More Tales From the Walking Dead Universe’
Anthology sequence Tales of the Strolling Useless provided a few of the greatest tales set inside AMC’s zombie universe in years. However the six standalone episodes, airing from August via September 2022, have but to obtain any follow-up motion. With that mentioned, AMC has introduced a sequence of shorts tentatively (and form of amazingly) titled Extra Tales From the Strolling Useless Universe, successfully borrowing the identical premise (and many of the identical title) as Tales. There’s at present no phrase on when to count on these shorts, but when one in all these episodes doesn’t contain the alternate Strolling Useless universe during which Rick Grimes will get a lightsaber and battles aliens (true story), what are we even doing right here?
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