There’s extra zombies coming to AMC and this time they’re falling from the sky.
That’s definitely the message from The Walking Dead: Dead City’s teaser trailer that AMC has unveiled because it lastly set a premiere date for its spinoff sequence.
The present, which was initially set to air within the spring, will premiere on Sunday June 18 at 10pm ET. It will air on AMC and AMC+. Subsequent episodes will transfer to the 9pm ET timeslot.
It comes as stars Lauren Cohan and Gaius Charles, together with showrunner Eli Jorné, have been on a panel on the WonderCon occasion in California.
Jorné defined what the brand new present has to supply each loyal followers of The Walking Dead and newcomers.
“It’s The Walking Dead like we’ve never seen it before. We haven’t really lived in a city like this.” Jorné mentioned. “It’s The Walking Dead like we’ve never seen it before. We haven’t really lived in a city like this.” Jorné mentioned. “It’s New York; there’s skyscrapers up to the sky and a million and a half walkers. And for characters like Maggie and Negan, who’ve been running through the woods for a long time, it’s just a whole new world that’s just extremely claustrophobic, scary, and also, as you’ll discover, has pockets of survivors, you’ll get to see all the strange new ways they live in the apocalypse, it’s definitely like nothing you’ve seen before.”
The Walking Dead: Dead City follows Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they journey right into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, way back reduce off from the mainland. The crumbling metropolis is crammed with the lifeless and denizens who’ve made New York City their very own world filled with anarchy, hazard, magnificence, and terror.
At the panel Cohan addressed the elephant within the room. What would this shock crew up between Negan, the person who killed her husband Glenn (Steven Yeun) thoughts you, and Maggie imply for the each of them?
“It’s interesting because we see a very unprocessed level of trauma that we know happened between Maggie and Negan. In Dead City, we really get a chance to [ask], ‘What is this? What does it take to move through it?’” Cohan mentioned. “And more than anything, it’s a chance for us to be forced together on this mission. The tension and unmovable things are still very present. We’ve seen them intersect so often, but in this show, it’s really this tunnel that they’re trapped in to face things they may have run away from, more so what Maggie has run away from and what Negan[‘s presence] brings up for her. It’s like an exercise in intimacy with the worst person.”
Jorné additional defined the complexity of their relationship this time round: “It’s the next chapter in the story of Maggie and Negan, and so in that sense, it’s a lot of grief, trauma, and loss on both sides and how do you navigate that? How does Maggie look in Negan’s face every day and remember what he did to the love of her life? That’s still a huge part of the show. For anybody who’s watched the walking dead all these years and connected to those characters, we’re continuing the story, growing it, evolving it, and deepening it in a whole new landscape.”
The six-episode sequence additionally stars Jonathan Higginbotham, Mahina Napoleon, Trey Santiago-Hudson, and Charlie Solis. It is the fourth spinoff within the Walking Dead universe following Fear The Walking Dead, World Beyond and Tales of the Walking Dead and is the primary sequel to the unique Walking Dead sequence.
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