At the New York Comic Con panel last Saturday, AMC’s The Walking Dead: Dead City was divulged and announced that the spinoff will debut in April 2023. The Walking Dead: Dead City was announced in March 2022 by AMC, set in zombie-infested New York City. In this spinoff, the stars will also be producing the show.
This fourth spinoff of The Walking Dead (succeeding Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and Tales of the Walking Dead) will follow Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, The Losers), and Maggie, played by Lauren Cohan (Mile 22, Barman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) as they maneuver “a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland,” said AMC, according to TVLine. “The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.”
The Walking Dead first aired in 2010, and after 11 outstanding seasons, the show will be airing its series finale in the next month. However, despite the show coming to an end, there are a few spinoffs that are in maturation.
“It is a very, very different world. New York City in the apocalypse is unlike any place you’ve seen in the apocalypse,” teased The Walking Dead Universe’s chief content officer, Scott M. Gimple, at the New York Comic Con. “It’s a madhouse.”
“It makes it very hard to see us together because it’s the hardest situation that we [Maggie and Negan] have to be in, and the need is bigger than the fear,” said Cohan.
“We’re proud of it, and we think you guys are going to love it,” added Morgan.
Originally advertised as Isle of the Dead in March, this new spinoff shows Cohan and Morgan’s enemies-turned-allies displaying the adage: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. AMC also publicized that The Walking Dead: Dead City will have a six-episode first season that premieres this April on AMC and AMC+.
The concluding episodes of The Walking Dead air Sundays on AMC and AMC+, finishing with the series finale on November 20th.