‘The Walking Dead’ wants to look like Marvel and Star Wars with its new series: this is its catalog of upcoming releases

Half a year has passed since ‘The Walking Dead’, the series, closed its doors after eleven seasons and 177 episodes. However, the brand of television zombies that start from the comic universe of Robert Kirkman is still alive as a franchise and, although its popularity is no longer what it was, it has a rope for a while, with its longest-running spin-off, ‘Fear The Walking Dead’, also about to end, but with several new series on the horizon. This is what this post-apocalyptic world will give of itself in the coming times.

Farewell to ‘Fear The Walking Dead’

Composed of twelve installments, season 8 of ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ will be the last of the first series derived from ‘The Walking Dead’ which, without ever being so successful, has held its own for more than a hundred episodes . It will end at the end of 2023, when the second part of this eighth season is broadcast., the first batch of which is now airing on AMC. The departure of Alycia Debnam-Carey was offset by the return of Kim Dickens as Madison Clark (a creative bet with not much sense but much requested by fans), who is still in the cast along with Colman Domingo and Danay García, in addition to two original series members who collected here, Lennie James (Morgan) and Austin Amelio (Dwight).

First stop: Manhattan and ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’

We will soon see a change of focus in the ‘The Walking Dead’ franchise, which will go from having fictions with a vocation of long continuity and great size, with seasons of 15 or 20 episodes, to several shorter series but that will try to sell themselves as big events. It seems that They seek to follow the Disney+ strategy with Marvel and Star Wars of having powerful premieres spread throughout the year that attract subscribers.

And the first example is ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’, a miniseries of only six episodes in which we will follow in the footsteps of Maggie and Negan through Manhattan, where they will go in search of her son, Hershel, who has been kidnapped. The hate-friendship dynamic was one of the elements that most exploded in its final stretch of the original ‘The Walking Dead’ and here they intend to stretch the gum, at least in a new and attractive context. Enough for us to see it?

Daryl goes to France

After briefly being a Commonwealth soldier and saying goodbye to Carol in the final episode of ‘The Walking Dead’, Daryl Dixon has a new adventure. One day, the endearing shaggy, short on words, will wake up and discover that he is in France. How did you get there?Are transatlantic flights still running after the end of the world? Who knows. But yes, Daryl is in the old continent and he will have to figure out what he’s doing there and how to get back home, while meeting new survivors, like Isabelle (Clémence Poésy), a member of a religious group with a dark past, or Quinn (Adam Nagaitis). ), owner of a Parisian nightclub and a powerful man. Like the previous one, it will only have six episodes and we are supposed to see it at some point in 2023. oh la la.

Rick and Michonne return

Throughout its seasons, ‘The Walking Dead’ was killing or losing many of its most charismatic protagonists, to such an extent that the series continued to live and kick without its main character, Sheriff Rick Grimes. This was due, above all, to the fact that British actor Andrew Lincoln did not want to spend so much time of the year in the US away from his family and did not renew his contract. However, he struck a deal with AMC to get the character out of him with the idea of ​​bringing him back at some point. Initially it was said that Rick Grimes would star in a set of movies for television, but it has finally been decided to make another short-lived series. (of this it is unknown how many episodes there will be).

But Rick won’t be alone here (or more or less yes), but he’s back with Michonne: we saw both of them at the end of ‘The Walking Dead’, with a scene that seemed more like a teaser than a closing of what was to come. to come: each one is on one side and they try to find each other. The most curious thing is that Danai Gurira, in addition to reincarnating her character, signs as co-creator of the series along with Scott M. Gimple, head of the franchise. Filming has already been completed and we will also see Pollyanna McIntosh, Jadis in fiction, Rick’s captor, in the series.

And more…

Those three titles focused on relevant characters from the original series (we recap: the Maggie and Negan series, the Daryl series and the Rick and Michonne series) will be the big bets of the ‘The Walking Dead’ franchise for the coming months, although we should not rule out more projects. Along with ‘Fear…’ about to end, it also concluded ‘The Walking Dead: World Beyond’, which was intended as a limited series, and The future of ‘Tales of the Walking Dead’ remains up in the air, that anthology of independent stories that, for the moment, has a season of six episodes, although it is not ruled out that it could return at some point, although there are no imminent plans for it. There’s also a short-form series in development whose working title, wildly imaginative, is ‘More Tales From the Walking Dead’. This dead man is very much alive, listen.