- Rick and Michonne will return to the “Strolling Useless” universe in a spin-off present subsequent 12 months.
- Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln stunned followers on the “TWD” panel to make the announcement.
- The sequence will launch with six episodes with Scott M. Gimple serving as showrunner.
We lastly have an replace on the long-awaited Rick Grimes.”The Strolling Useless“films and it isn’t what we anticipated.
“TWD” stars Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira stunned followers at San Diego Comedian-Con on Friday afternoon by asserting that Rick and Michonne’s love story will proceed as a sequence of one-hour episodes subsequent. 12 months.
“We… have been getting ready one thing for you as a result of now we have missed you and we owe you the conclusion of the story. [of] Rick and Michonne,” Gurira informed the Comedian-Con crowd.
Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln communicate onstage at AMC’s ‘The Strolling Useless’ panel throughout Comedian-Con Worldwide 2022: San Diego on the San Diego Conference Heart on July 22, 2022 in San Diego, California.
Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures
“So subsequent 12 months there will likely be six episodes on AMC+, airing in 2023,” Lincoln added of the upcoming Rick and Michonne sequence, because it appeared he would return to San Diego Comedian-Con subsequent 12 months to disclose extra.
Insider has reached out to AMC to substantiate whether or not or not the sequence will likely be unique to AMC+.
“TWD” panel host Chris Hardwick requested “TWD universe” boss Scott M. Gimple onstage if the untitled Rick and Michonne sequence will change the Rick Grimes film that has been the topic of ridiculed for years. Gimple replied with a direct: “Sure.”
“Personally, I am unable to wait to place my cowboy boots again on and get the band again collectively,” Lincoln stated of reprising his iconic “TWD” position.
“First he has to search out his spouse,” Gurira shortly added.
Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln communicate onstage at AMC’s ‘The Strolling Useless’ panel throughout Comedian-Con Worldwide 2022: San Diego on the San Diego Conference Heart on July 22, 2022 in San Diego, California.
Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures
Lincoln left “The Strolling Useless” in 2018 brazenly. His character, Rick, was flown in a helicopter by no means to be seen once more. His associates and his associate had been led to imagine that he was killed within the explosion and collapse of a bridge. Gurira’s character, Michonne, left the sequence in season 10 when she discovered a clue that she is perhaps alive.
In response to a press launch, Michonne and Rick’s sequence “will begin with six episodes,” so it seems like there’s potential for this to be greater than only a restricted sequence. Lincoln and Gurira will function govt producers for the sequence with Gimple serving as showrunner.
AMC described the upcoming sequence as follows:
“This sequence presents an epic love story of two characters modified by a modified world. Stored aside by distance. By unstoppable energy. By the ghosts of who they had been. Rick and Michonne are thrown into one other world, constructed on a battle towards the lifeless… And, finally, a battle towards the dwelling. Can they meet and know who they had been in a spot and state of affairs in contrast to any they’ve ever identified earlier than? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Winners?With out one another, are they alive, or will they uncover that they, too, are The Strolling Useless?
Closing out Friday’s panel, Gimple added, “We won’t thanks sufficient on your endurance and we’re working onerous to ensure it was price it.”
Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln met backstage with their tv daughter, performed by Cailey Fleming, at San Diego Comedian-Con.
Albert L. Ortega/Getty Pictures
The information in all probability got here as a little bit of a shock to followers of the sequence. initially introduced like a trilogy film to be made in 2018a film trailer it was launched later in 2019 on SDCC with Common Photos. Since then, the movie has creatively stalled with script rewrites over time. Even comedian e-book creator Robert Kirkman stepped in at one level to work on the script.
Throughout a press convention attended by Insider, star Norman Reedus and govt producer Greg Nicotero stated they’d identified concerning the Rick and Michonne sequence for some time and that the discussions lasted a couple of 12 months.
“All of us keep up a correspondence, so all of us speak on a regular basis,” Nicotero stated. “So it was, you realize, conversations concerning the film, conversations about this.”
“The Strolling Useless” will air its closing eight episodes within the fall starting October 2, 2022.