With the original series shuffling towards its conclusion, the world of The Walking Dead continues to spread like one of Alpha’s hordes with the news that AMC have announced yet another spin-off for the zombie drama. This time they’re partnering up Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s characters – Maggie and Negan – and stranding them on Manhattan for the six-episode series Isle of the Dead.
Announced as “a bold new vision” via the networks Twitter account, Isle of the Dead will be released in 2023, and sends the rival characters to a city cut off from the mainland.
According to AMC (via The Wrap) Isle of the Dead will take place in “a crumbling city filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.”
President of AMC Studios Dan McDermott said “This is a very big day for the expanding universe we are building around The Walking Dead. It not only adds another compelling series to this collection, it extends our storytelling around two unforgettable characters fans have grown to love, hate or hate and then love in Maggie and Negan, brilliantly inhabited by Lauren and Jeffrey. It also lets us explore a corner of this universe located on the island of Manhattan, with an iconic skyline that takes on a very different meaning when viewed through the lens of a zombie apocalypse.”
Eli Jorné, who writes and co-executive produces the main series, will serve as the showrunner, while Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead‘s ever-expanding universe will oversee the show. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will also serve as executive producers.
Isle of the Dead joins the untitled Carol and Daryl spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead, Tales of the Walking Dead, The World Beyond, and The Rick Grimes Trilogy in the The Walking Dead Television Universe.
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