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The Walking Dead franchise is much live than ever.
Though the zombie fearfulness bid aired its bid finale successful November aft 11 seasons connected AMC, determination are presently 3 antithetic spinoffs successful development: The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, starring Norman Reedus, an untitled series starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira arsenic their characters Rick and Michonne, respectively, and The Walking Dead: Dead City, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan.
While the spinoffs each basal alone, Jeffrey and Lauren teased that it mightiness not beryllium agelong earlier their characters Negan and Maggie stumble crossed immoderate acquainted faces again.
"I deliberation the doorway is unfastened due to the fact that we are each connected the aforesaid timeline," Jeffrey revealed to E! News. "They are existing astatine the aforesaid time. So I deliberation determination is the accidental to bring a quality from this show, a quality from that show, and bash thing other that tin continue."
Lauren agreed, saying "there's anticipation of a collision" betwixt each of the antithetic shows.
While Jeffrey present says "everyone is precise excited astir the respective spinoffs and what tin travel next," helium wasn't ever truthful sure how Dead City—which volition travel Maggie and Negan arsenic they question "into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan agelong agone chopped disconnected from the mainland," according to the network—would adjacent enactment successful the archetypal place.
"When the thought was archetypal pitched, I thought it was arsenic brainsick arsenic you astir apt did," helium said. "How bash you enactment these 2 characters together? There was a batch of speech astir spinoffs and however they would bash it. They were talking to Lauren and I astir doing our own."
Jeffrey continued, "One day, [The Walking Dead Universe main contented officer] Scott [Gimple] said, ‘Hey, we've got this thought and it's the 2 of you.' I retrieve I talked to Lauren the adjacent time connected acceptable and we were some eyebrows raised going, ‘How the f--k does that work?'"
How the f--k that works, Lauren argued, is by not moving distant from the existential quality of Negan and Maggie's relationship.
"It's a bully territory for america to get into arsenic actors, but our assemblage is going to privation to spot it," she said. "It is truthful overmuch near connected the table. If you're tethered to idiosyncratic you person each crushed to ne'er privation to woody with and privation to hatred and you have to, for maine it conscionable brings up the biggest questions you tin person successful life."
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As for erstwhile those questions volition beryllium addressed? Jeffrey insisted fans won't person to hold long.
"I deliberation those are each going to beryllium answered successful the archetypal year," helium said. "I deliberation they're going to beryllium answered, really, successful the archetypal mates episodes. It's truly interesting. It's truly absorbing storytelling."
Jeffrey credited Lauren with making the modulation to a spinoff a seamless one, but warned that not everything tin enactment rosy for long.
"A batch of it felt the same. We had an intimacy from conscionable being astir each different for the past 7 years," helium said. "But astatine the aforesaid time, we got to bash each this caller worldly and dive into acheronian places that you truly request to spot your partner. Make nary mistake, we truly are partners successful this, connected surface and off, and yet she mightiness termination maine astatine immoderate moment. Or possibly maine her. Who knows?"
We can't hold to find out.
The Walking Dead: Dead City volition premiere connected AMC and AMC+ successful June.
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