The Walking Dead star Melissa McBride leaves spinoff series

AMC Carol and Daryl Living Dead Spinoff just lost a leading lady.

Original Living Dead Star Melissa McBride has gone from being an untitled spinoff to following her character on screen, often with favorite Norman Reedus Daryl.

“Melissa McBride has brought to life one of the most interesting, real, human and popular characters. Living Dead The world. Sadly, he will no longer be able to participate in the previously announced spin-off centered around the characters of Daryl Dixon and Carol Pelletier, which will shoot and shoot in Europe this summer and release next year. Moving to Europe at this point became logistically unwarranted for Melissa. “We know fans will be disappointed by this news, but The Walking Dead universe continues to grow and expand in exciting ways, and we look forward to seeing Carol again in the near future,” AMC said in a statement on Wednesday. .

The actor has been playing Carol since joining Living Dead Pilot in a recurring role in the first season. The untitled spin-off was made in September 2020 with details including the location of the footage still to be processed. Sources say that McBride, when he learned of the shooting’s location in Europe, decided not to film abroad. The Living Dead The main series was filmed in Atlanta for the last decade. Sources say other possibilities are being considered for McBride and Carroll.

Carol and Daryl were series favorites from the start. Both characters started out as page notes but quickly reached stellar status when their characters became bad warriors and left after a series of releases.

AMC, which really spoiled the main series finale, announced a direct order for the Carol-Daryl spinoff in September 2020. The spinoff premiered in 2023, following the conclusion of the 11th Flagman drama. And the last season.

In late 2018, Ridus and McBride signed groundbreaking “franchise/world” deals with AMC. This multi-year deal, the first of its kind for AMC, included a decent salary for both stars and ran for three years of franchising, which is to say. If your characters are canceled from the flagship and transferred to another property Living Dead The franchise, or its new spin-off, would continue to bear fruit.

McBride’s deal, which also included a substantial salary, netted the actor about $20 million over three years. The agreements have been rated as innovators in the sense that there are more than the traditional agreements of series/sets and allow Ridus and McBride -who have been regulars since the second season, when they earned $8,500 per episode- to move freely between new projects. Living Dead World, as franchise boss Scott M. Gimple, charts a course that includes revisiting characters that have come and gone with everything from new series and digital footage to miniseries and more.

“I’ve always enjoyed working closely with Norman throughout all these seasons. “While playing Carroll, and as a viewer of the show, I’ve also been interested in ‘Daryl and Carroll’ for a long time, and what I’ve spent so much time with, even in a way,” McBride said in September. . 2020. Their common history is long, and each person’s personal struggle to survive is even longer, a more obvious aspect of what holds them together and loyal. But there’s also a rather mysterious aspect about their love for each other that I enjoy and their joy when the world allows it. Ძ I’m very curious! Angela has the ability to change things in big and unexpected ways. He looks like a kid playing with a dimmer switch! “I’m very excited!”

Living Dead He’s seen his awesome actors travel. McBride’s performance draws parallels with Andrew Lincoln, who since the first season has played the face of the franchise, Rick Grimes. The star left the series a few seasons ago and was planning a three-film spin-off set in Robert Kirkman’s dramatic zombie world. There has been no movement in Universal Pictures’ assets over the years.