Despite the main show ending after 11 seasons last year, AMC’s The Walking Dead franchise continues to live on through myriad exciting spinoff projects. Soon we’ll see Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) travel to Manhattan in Dead City; Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) heads to a desolate France; and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) will make a triumphant return to our screens!
Of all those projects, we know the least about the Rick & Michonne show, but now we’re one step closer: the spinoff has officially wrapped filming! The official longline for the series reads:
"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?"
The show was being filmed under the working title Summit, and we know it will involve the Civic Republic, a network of interconnected communities that has been teased throughout the franchise, particularly in The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The series finale of The Walking Dead showed us a brief glimpse of Rick wearing a Civic Republic uniform:
Team behind Rick and Michonne Walking Dead spinoff release statement
After officially wrapping the six-episode series, Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira, Andrew Lincoln, Denise Huth, and Brian Bockrath released a joint statement.
"Thank you for creating the next world of The Walking Dead with us. Your talent, energy, and enthusiasm through it all has been the thing that’s gotten us through it all, bringing home a story more than a decade in the telling! This story will live on and our work with it; we’re the ones who live!"
A message from Scott, Andy, Danai, Denise, and Brian to #TWDSummit crew after their wrap on the series. Best crew in the world! pic.twitter.com/NnyOoHw8u5
— TWDU Promos (@TWDUPromos) May 29, 2023
The spinoff doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s expected to premiere sometime in 2024. Before then, we’ve got Dead City and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. That’s a lot of zombies. While we’re waiting, the final season of Fear the Walking Dead is currently airing on AMC!
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