It’s been 4 years since AMC introduced that it might proceed the story of Rick Grimes within the type of a entire trilogy of made-for-TV motion pictures. And at this weekend’s Walking Dead panel at San Diego Comic-Con, AMC lastly revealed that — very like a zombie — the Rick Grimes movie wasn’t precisely useless, however wasn’t precisely the identical both. Rick and Michonne’s story will proceed in a six-episode TV miniseries beginning in 2023.
Actor Andrew Lincoln’s ultimate episode of The Walking Dead aired in 2018, together with his character’s destiny unsure. A season later, Danai Gurira additionally departed the show, along with her character Michonne setting off on a journey to search out Rick. Lincoln and Gurira will each return for the brand new collection.
In a press launch, AMC supplied an official abstract indicating that Rick and Michonne’s relationship would be the spine of the show. “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?”
AMC additionally stated that the show will “begin with six episodes,” leaving open the likelihood that the collection will lengthen past that as effectively.
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