Again in April 2019, AMC announced the Walking Dead franchise was increasing to incorporate a 3rd collection. In response to the community, The Walking Dead: World Beyond “will characteristic two younger feminine protagonists and give attention to the primary era to return of age within the apocalypse as we all know it. Some will grow to be heroes. Some will grow to be villains. In the long run, all of them will probably be modified ceaselessly. Grown up and cemented of their identities, each good and dangerous.” The present will probably be very totally different than earlier Strolling Lifeless collection in its construction — it’s going to run for 2 closed-ended seasons — in addition to in its tone and geographic places.
This is what we all know to this point about The Strolling Lifeless: World Past, the third Strolling Lifeless collection (after The Strolling Lifeless and Fear the Walking Dead), which can premiere later this yr on AMC. It was initially scheduled to premiere Sunday, April 12, however the premiere date has been postponed to a date to be decided because of the coronavirus pandemic. Manufacturing on Concern the Strolling Lifeless Season 6 has additionally been halted, and the beginning date for bodily manufacturing on Season 11 of The Strolling Lifeless has been pushed again, whereas the writers are working from dwelling.
This is what it is about
“The Strolling Lifeless: World Past expands the universe of The Strolling Lifeless, delving into a brand new mythology and story that follows the primary era raised in a surviving civilization of the post-apocalyptic world,” AMC’s official description states. “Two sisters together with two associates depart a spot of security and luxury to courageous risks, identified and unknown, dwelling and undead, on an vital quest. Pursued by those that want to shield them and people who want to hurt them, a story of rising up and transformation unfurls throughout harmful terrain, difficult the whole lot they know concerning the world, themselves and one another. Some will grow to be heroes. Some will grow to be villains. However all of them will discover the truths they search.”
It is a two-season, closed-ended collection
Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Leisure Group and AMC Studios, revealed on the Tv Critics Affiliation winter press tour in January that World Past will probably be a two-season, closed-ended collection consisting of 20 episodes. “It is the right development of the universe in methods which might be multi-generational, contemporary, and sudden,” she mentioned. “It isn’t imitating The Strolling Lifeless, both in substance nor in kind. World Past is a two-season, closed-ended collection that may inform a really particular and distinct story.”
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It has some acquainted producers
World Past is created by Scott M. Gimple, chief content material officer of the Strolling Lifeless universe and former Strolling Lifeless showrunner, and Matt Negrete, who has been a author and producer on The Strolling Lifeless for the previous 5 seasons and whose credit embody Andrew Lincoln’s final episode and the Negan-introducing Season 6 finale. Negrete is showrunner of the brand new collection. Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts will direct.
There are many trailers
The collection’ first trailer was launched in the course of the present’s panel at New York Comic Con. Test it out above.
Because the first trailer, AMC has launched two extra. The primary one teases a CRM location in a spot by no means earlier than seen on any Strolling Lifeless present: New York.
The second is about character and temper. It does not comprise any new footage from the present. As a substitute, it introduces the characters by way of pastel colours and character.
There’s additionally an abbreviated and up to date model of the unique Comedian Con trailer.
It should have some important variations from the opposite exhibits
Not like the opposite two collection within the franchise, which do 16-episode seasons, Season 1 of World Past will probably be 10 episodes lengthy. The present is shot in Virginia, which isn’t a spot the opposite two have filmed. The Strolling Lifeless is about in Virginia, as of Season 10, however movies in Georgia. Concern the Strolling Lifeless has filmed in quite a few places and is at present set and filmed in Texas. World Past set all around the nation, as the youngsters’ quest begins in Nebraska and continues east.
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A bunch of younger individuals are within the forged
Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, and Hal Cumpston have been forged in main roles. Mansour, who has appeared on Madam Secretary, SEAL Team, and The Resident, will play Hope, one of many two protagonists, “a good-natured rule-breaker who lives for right now. She is likable and humorous on the skin however unhappy on the within.” Cantu and Cumpston will play Elton and Silas, a science-minded teen and a quiet loner, respectively.
At San Diego Comic-Con, Gimple introduced another forged members: The Americans‘ Annet Mahendru will play a personality named Huck, and The Red Line‘s Aliyah Royale will play Iris, the opposite protagonist, a heroic younger lady who will do something to guard the individuals she loves.
And Younger star Nico Tortorella will play Felix, “an honorable man of his phrase who is not afraid to combat for others’ security and acceptance.”
We have now some first-look pictures
AMC launched the first six images from the new series forward of the present’s New York Comedian Con debut. The star of those pictures is Silas’ massive wrench.
Alexa Mansour, Aliyah Royale, Hal Cumpston, and Nicolas Cantu, TWD3
Scott Gimple teased some particulars at San Diego Comedian-Con
Gimple mentioned the present will probably be about children who got here of age comparatively sheltered from the zombie apocalypse, in what he known as a “first-world state of affairs” in comparison with the mud and blood we have seen to this point.
“There is a massive secret concerning the Strolling Lifeless universe,” he mentioned, talking concerning the spin-off publicly for the primary time. “All these years we have simply seen a tiny sliver of the Strolling Lifeless world. There’s a complete lot of world on the market. The massive secret is that each one alongside, there have been different civilizations that survived the apocalypse. We noticed hints of that in Season 7 of The Strolling Lifeless and once more in ‘The End of Everything,’ and now we’re about to point out much more of the world in a bunch of various tasks,” he mentioned. “These children might keep the place they grew up, on this place of consolation and safety, however they depart their dwelling to threat the whole lot for a quest whereas they’re pursued by grownup associates on a quest of their very own. We are going to see a few of these children grow to be heroes and others grow to be villains.”
At New York Comedian Con, Gimple gave some extra perception into what the story of World Past will probably be.
“They’ve grown up within the apocalypse,” Gimple mentioned of the present’s younger characters. “They’re conscious of walkers. They have not interacted with them. They have been [living] past partitions. That makes any journey they should make extremely harmful. They’re affected in several methods by what occurred. They do not keep in mind a lot of a world with out walkers. That is the conventional world for them, however they have been aside from it. They have been in security. There is a quest facet to this present. They are going someplace. They’ve to depart this place of security to place themselves able the place they must combat for his or her survival and what they imagine in. It is a totally different form of story on the earth of The Strolling Lifeless, and it introduces a brand new world.”
It is instantly related to the helicopter individuals
Gimple revealed a giant piece of mythology in the course of the New York Comic Con panel. The group who took Rick Grimes away in a helicopter on The Strolling Lifeless and who confirmed up once more on Concern the Strolling Lifeless has an insignia that is three interlocking circles. Gimple mentioned that these circles every symbolize a unique group throughout the bigger group, and the group on The World Past is a type of teams. However it’s not the one the place Rick Grimes is presumably headed, nor does it appear to be the one the place Concern‘s Isabelle was from.
It took a very long time to decide on a title
The collection was introduced in April, and the title wasn’t announced till November. Together with the title announcement got here a brand new teaser, which has some hardcore helicopter motion.
The supporting forged is getting crammed in
Emmy-winner Julia Ormond (Temple Grandin) joins as a collection common and can play Elizabeth, who’s described because the charismatic chief of a giant, refined and formidable pressure. Visitor stars within the season will embody Succession‘s Natalie Gold as Lyla, a mysterious determine working within the shadows on behalf of the trigger she believes in; Step Up: Excessive Water‘s Al Calderon as Barca; Rise‘s Ted Sutherland as Percy; and 30 Rock‘s Scott Adsit as Tony.
Julia Ormond, The Strolling Lifeless: World Past
The important thing artwork makes it clear it is a totally different Strolling Lifeless
In step with the colourful teaser, World Past’s key artwork makes use of shiny colours by no means earlier than seen within the normally drab Strolling Lifeless franchise.
The Strolling Lifeless: World Past is coming to AMC later this yr. The Strolling Lifeless is on the market to stream on Netflix, whereas Concern the Strolling Lifeless is on the market on Hulu.