The Walking Dead walks on. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, AMC dropped a trailer for the show’s upcoming sixth season, which will feature more of the living (minus former lead character Rick Grimes) face down the malevolent Alpha and her Whisperers. Roll the tape:
That’s four minutes of zombie-fied goodness. The Walking Dead season 10 kicks off on October 6.
But The Walking Dead isn’t the only AMC zombie show on the block anymore. Fear the Walking Dead, a show set at the start of the zombie apocalypse but which has pretty much caught up with the original show now, has been going strong for five seasons, and there’s a third, unnamed show around the corner.
Now, given The Walkings Dead’s flagging ratings, you can make a good argument for us not needing a third show, or even a second…or a first, depending on deep down this particular rabbit hole you are. But speaking at at the Fear the Walking Dead Comic-Con, AMC zombie content god Scott Gimple at least laid out how the new show will differentiate itself from what’s come before:
"There’s a big secret about the Walking Dead universe…The big secret is that all along, there have been other civilizations that survived the apocalypse. We saw hints of that in season seven of The Walking Dead and again in [the Maggie Grace-centric Fear episode] ‘The End of Everything,’ and now we’re about to show a lot more of the world in a bunch of different projects."
The new show will focus on a group of kids who came of age after the zombie apocalypse, but who never had to deal with the worst of it. “These kids grew up in a place of comfort and security,” Gimple continued, “but they leave everything on a dangerous quest, and end up being pursued by adults on their own own dangerous quest. We’ll see kids become heroes and some become villains.”
Honestly, I bet the new show goes the way of its predecessors and descends into “we must survive at all costs” grim-darkness pretty quick, but kudos to Gimple and co for trying something…new. I hope it’s great.
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The new show, which may or may not be called Learn About The Walking Dead, is scheduled to premiere in 2020.
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