The Walking Dead: World Beyond will connect with Rick Grimes movies

The Walking Dead: World Beyond is more than just another spinoff. It sounds like it’s going to tie together a lot of disparate storylines.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond is all set to premiere right after The Walking Dead season 10 finale on October 4. Mind you, the first season of World Beyond has been done for a while and was originally going to air sooner, but when the season 10 finale was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, World Beyond was delayed as well.

You not be wondering AMC didn’t choose to air The Walking Dead: World Beyond earlier, to bridge the gap until the season 10 finale. Well, it’s likely because something in the season 10 finale will connect with the events of World Beyond. The Walking Dead universe is expanding in unexpected ways, and AMC doesn’t want us to know too much too soon.

Speaking with IGN, Walking Dead Universe chief content officer Scott M. Gimple dove into these connections, tying World Beyond to the upcoming movies about Rick Grimes, who left the show in season 9, airlifted away by a mysterious group with a three-ringed symbol on their helicopter. “There are aspects of World Beyond that exist in the same universe as the movie,” he said. “It’s just closer to what Rick’s story is. You know, Rick Grimes doesn’t walk out from around the corner in [World Beyond] and show up, but you learn a lot more about the world that Rick is potentially dealing with. It has deep connections to the movie.”

Speculation that Rick was lifted away by a group called the Commonwealth has been pretty widespread. We’ve seen that symbol pop up in several places, including promos forWorld Beyond. And one of their members popped up on Fear the Walking Dead.

It’s looking like The World Beyond, which centers around kids who came of age during the zombie apocalypse and which will only run for two seasons, will provide a bridge between what the franchise is doing now and what it wants to do in the future.

We also know that we’ll be getting six additional episodes of The Walking Dead season 10 coming early next year. How will everything come together? How will Rick play into all of this? Stay tuned!

But it’s not all about mysterious connections. Talking about World Beyond at San Diego Comic-Con@Home, executive producer Matt Negrete also gave us a tease of some good old-fashioned zombie grossness. “It’s interesting, because we’re now 10 years after everything fell apart and so with that is 10 years of decay,” he said. “I’m a big fan of disgusting walkers and I have this thing, I don’t know whether you guys have heard of it – it’s like, trypophobia, where it’s a fear of holes in nature.”

Apparently one of the zombies on the show will draw on this fear, and it already has us nervous. “I almost dry-heaved, because it had holes in its cheek…It’s so disgusting. It’s a quick moment in the show, but it’s so great. Anything that sort of maximises ultimate disgust, we’re doing it.”

Alright, folks, you best prepare yourselves, because this is not going to be pretty.

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h/t Games Radar, Digital Spy