Scott Gimple, the Chief Content Officer for The Walking Dead franchise, has teased that a big announcement is coming soon.
There’s a lot for The Walking Dead fans to be excited about these days, especially with Rick leaving the show and some other significant changes coming to the series. But that’s not all, as Scott Gimple says that fans should be looking out for another surprise very soon.
Speaking during last Sunday’s The Talking Dead (via ComicBook.com), Gimple, who oversees the Walking Dead universe, said: “I work on both shows. I help these gentlemen, I help [The Walking Dead showrunner] Angela Kang. We work on the stories together, I consult on the episodes as they go through, and producing.
“And then beyond that, working on the future of The Walking Dead. And per that, we’re gonna have something to discuss. We’re gonna have a family meeting, all of the Walking Dead fans — people who haven’t watched the show, people who are going to watch the show — we’re gonna talk about something really big soon.”
What this big announcement may be is unclear but with all the talk about future iterations of the brand, movies, and spinoffs, perhaps fans can look forward to hearing something along these lines.
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“Last season brought the culmination of “All Out War,” which pitted Rick Grimes and his group of survivors against the Saviors and their cunning leader, Negan. With Negan’s life in his hands, Rick had a character-defining choice in front of him. By making the unilateral decision to spare Negan, Rick upheld the values his late son, Carl, championed in order to build for the future, but created conflict within his group. Now, we see our survivors a year and a half after the end of the war, rebuilding civilization under Rick’s steadfast leadership. It is a time of relative peace among the communities as they work together, looking to the past to forge the future, but the world they knew is rapidly changing as man-made structures continue to degrade, and nature takes over, changing the landscape and creating new challenges for our survivors. As time passes, the communities confront unexpected obstacles, danger, and of course, walkers, but nothing quite prepares them for the formidable force they are about to encounter, which threatens the very idea of civilization that our survivors have worked so hard to build.”
The Walking Dead season 9 premieres on October 7th on AMC.
