Robert Kirkman Teases New Spinoff TALES OF THE WALKING DEAD Will Be a Really Cool Show
AMC’s The Walking Dead anthology spin-off Tales of the Walking Dead is in the works. And today, TWD creator Robert Kirkman says the series will “do things that are much different” than what we’ve seen on the main show.
Kirkman tells Collider: “I mean, we’re hopeful that it’ll last past the first season. There’s not any kind of cap on what we’re doing, we’re just trying to make the best season possible to begin with and see how things go from there. I think it’s a tremendous opportunity to explore many different aspects of the Walking Dead Universe, to be able to jump forward and backward in time, and also do things that are much different than what we’ve done on The Walking Dead thus far. So I think it’ll be a really cool show, but we’re gonna see how things go.”
The anthology created by Scott Gimple tells contained stories about new and existing characters including fan-favorites who have died over the course of the apocalypse.
Michael Cudlitz (Abraham), Ryan Hurst (Beta), and John Carroll Lynch (Eastman) are rumored to return. Along with characters from Fear the Walking Dead and TWD: World Beyond. AMC describes the series as an “episodic anthology with individual episodes or arcs of episodes focused on new or existing characters, backstories or other stand-alone experiences.” Instead of the 16 episode seasons of The Walking Dead, Tales of the Walking Dead will have a “smaller season.”
Scott M. Gimple said last year: “We’ve been playing with the Tales of format for nearly three years now, and tweaking it in all sorts of directions. It’s been an incredibly fun challenge. Yes, there’s going to be stories told with old favorites, there are also going to be stories told with brand new characters. These stories are from all over the Walking Dead timeline, and all over the Walking Dead Universe. We may be doing different formats and possibly utilizing animation, music, different mediums. We want to surprise people every week with what they will be getting.”
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There’s no word on when this spin-off will air. Meanwhile, the 24-episode final season of The Walking Dead will hit this summer. The first part will put Daryl, Maggie, and their group of zombie apocalypse survivors on the road to the Commonwealth.
The final six episodes of season 10 find our survivors picking themselves up following the destruction left by the Whisperers. The years of struggle weigh upon them as past traumas surface, exposing their more vulnerable sides. They question the state of humanity, their collective community, and the states of their minds. Will they find the strength to persevere with their lives, friendships, and group intact?
Last on The Walking Dead, Alpha (Samantha Morton) fell, ending the Whisperers War. The Kingdom also fell, Hilltop was destroyed and Alexandria abandoned. Our survivors were trapped and separated from one another. Yet, when faced with certain death, they rallied together to fight, eliminating the threat of the horde.
And then there’s that trilogy of Rick Grimes movies, which Andrew Lincoln says start shooting this spring. Lincoln says: “With good intentions, and if everything works and I can leave my country, I plan to be back in America filming in spring-summer.”
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