The Strolling Lifeless forged appeared Saturday at New York Comedian Con, and the forged introduced some thrilling information.
The principle sequence is ready to wrap in November, however the Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan-led spinoff The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis will debut on AMC in April.
Information of the premiere date comes because the sequence is in manufacturing on the fifth of six episodes in New York.
Cohan and Morgan had been readily available at NYCC to supply some tidbits of data, with Cohan joking that she’s taking part in Negan and Morgan is taking part in Maggie.
That would definitely subvert expectations!
The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis will take viewers to New York Metropolis on a journey with sworn enemies, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
The sequence takes viewers to “a post-apocalyptic Manhattan way back lower off from the mainland,” in line with the community.
“The crumbling metropolis,” AMC provides, “is stuffed with the useless and denizens who’ve made New York Metropolis their very own world stuffed with anarchy, hazard, magnificence and terror.”
Longtime TWD author Eli Jorné will function showrunner on the drama by way of his general take care of AMC Studios.
TWD Universe content material chief Scott M. Gimple will oversee the mission, which is ready to debut in 2023, and can span simply six episodes.
“This can be a very large day for the increasing universe we’re constructing round The Strolling Lifeless,” mentioned Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks when the present bought a sequence order in March.
“It not solely provides one other compelling sequence to this assortment, it extends our storytelling round two unforgettable characters followers have grown to like, hate or hate after which love in Maggie and Negan, brilliantly inhabited by Lauren and Jeffrey.”
“It additionally lets us discover a nook of this universe situated on the island of Manhattan, with an iconic skyline that takes on a really completely different that means when seen by means of the lens of a zombie apocalypse.”
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