The final Walking Dead premiere has something “we have never seen”

Now that we’re 10 seasons and over 150 episodes into The Walking Dead, it sometimes feels like AMC has exhausted everything it can do with the zombie show. But new shocks just keep coming, and AMC chief chief content officer Scott Gimple has hinted an event in the season 11 premiere will catch everyone off guard.

Although season 11 will be the show’s final outing, things are far from finished. Not only will the season have an super-sized batch of 24 episodes, but once it finishes, the franchise will shift its focus to the slate of spin-offs in the works. We know Fear the Walking Dead will return for a seventh season while World Beyond will also come back for a second. In the near future, Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) will get their very own spin-off, there’s an anthology show called Tales of the Walking Dead on the way, and of course there’s Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) much-anticipated return on the big screen!

But before we get to any of that, there are plenty of surprises in store for The Walking Dead season 11. “The first episode is crazy,” Gimple said during a TWDUniverse Twitch stream. “I cannot wait for people to see it. It’s big. It’s very, very big. I don’t want to say too much, but it’s stuff we have never seen on the show. When Angela, the writer, started talking about it, I immediately got excited.”

"It’s something we have not yet seen on the show. After the amount of episodes we’ve done."

For the final batch of episodes, the show will tackle the Commonwealth storyline from the Robert Kirkman’s comics. This community has advanced to a level unlike anything our survivors have seen before. They have an enormous military, a well-populated town, and a governor. But as always, things aren’t as perfect as they seem on the surface. Our group learned that the hard way upon meeting this group in season 10’s “Splinter.”

Watch videos from The Walking Dead season 11 set!

Filming on season 11 has been ongoing for a while now. Despite the struggles of working during a pandemic, the team appears to be having a lot of fun and enjoying the challenge. Over the last week, we’ve seen some “In Production” teasers showing off what our favorite actors are up to on set. The first one showed Ezekiel (Khary Payton) being held in a Commonwealth prison:

The second teaser shows Daryl and Dog reunited, alongside Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan):

The Walking Dead returns for its eleventh and final season on August 22 on AMC!

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