Six months after the series finale of The Walking Dead, new trailer prepares fans for the latest spinoff series, The Walking Dead: Dead City. The limited series follows Lauren Cohan’s (Death Race 2, The Boy) Maggie as she forms an unfathomable alliance with Jeffery Dean Morgan’s (Fall, Grey’s Anatomy) Negan. The two have departed the dirty south to traverse the island of Manhattan to rescue Maggie’s kidnapped son. Here they will face more than just walkers treading in the shadows. View the full trailer below.
The six-episode series’ cast includes Gaius Charles (Salt, The Messenger), Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale, The Blacklist), Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i), Trey Santiago-Hudson (Vineyards, You Hurt My Feelings), and Charlie Solis (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Everything Will Be Okay).
Cohan’s Maggie is an original series character appearing in 144 episodes. She is mostly known for the loving relationship she formed with the original series character, Glenn, portrayed by Steven Yeun (BEEF, Minari). Morgan arrived later in the show as the villainous Negan, who brutally murdered Glenn in an iconic scene ripped right from the pages of Robert Kirkman’s (Invincible, Marvel Zombies) graphic comic book.
Earlier this year, showrunner Eli Jorné (Wilfred, Heels) and Cohan appeared at WonderCon to speak about the upcoming series and the odd pairing of these two former enemies.
“It’s The Walking Dead like we’ve never seen it before,” Jorné explained according to Deadline. “We haven’t really lived in a city like this. It’s New York; there’s skyscrapers up to the sky and a million and a half walkers. And for characters like Maggie and Negan, who’ve been running through the woods for a long time, it’s just a whole new world that’s just extremely claustrophobic, scary, and also, as you’ll discover, has pockets of survivors, you’ll get to see all the strange new ways they live in the apocalypse, it’s definitely like nothing you’ve seen before.”
“It’s interesting because we see a very unprocessed level of trauma that we know happened between Maggie and Negan,” Cohan said via Deadline. “In Dead City, we really get a chance to [ask], ‘What is this? What does it take to move through it?’ And more than anything, it’s a chance for us to be forced together on this mission. The tension and unmovable things are still very present. We’ve seen them intersect so often, but in this show, it’s really this tunnel that they’re trapped in to face things they may have run away from, more so what Maggie has run away from and what Negan [‘s presence] brings up for her. It’s like an exercise in intimacy with the worst person.”
Dead City is just one of the many upcoming spinoffs TWD fans can look forward to. Fan-favorite Daryl Dixon, portrayed by Norman Reedus (Blade II, Sky), will appear in a solo series, while Andrew Lincoln (Penguin Bloom, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities) and Danai Gurira (All Eyez on Me, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) will reprise their roles as Rick Grimes and Michonne in a limited series.
The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere on Sunday, June 18 at 10 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+. Subsequent episodes will air Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.