The Walking Dead: AMC announces new spin-off series
The show will focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the undead apocalypse
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Your support makes all the difference.Another Walking Dead spin-off has been announced by the American network AMC.
There are currently two Walking Dead shows airing on television (The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead). There’s also a trilogy of films, centred on the character Rick Grimes, on the way.
The new show, created by franchise overseer Scott M Gimple and longtime Walking Dead writer Matt Negrete, will “feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it.
“Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.”
Gimple said in a statement: “Showing audiences an unseen pocket of The Walking Dead universe steeped in a new mythology is a very cool way to celebrate a ‘Decade of the Dead’ on TV and over 15 years of Robert Kirkman’s brilliant comic.”
The as-yet-unnamed series will enter production later this year, with the first ten episodes debuting in 2020.
Season nine of The Walking Dead recently finished. Read our recap of the finale episode here.
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