One thing has occurred with the present season of The Walking Dead which may be unprecedented in TV historical past. As a result of unstable circumstances ensuing from the coronavirus pandemic, the AMC’s zombie drama’s tenth season could have three season finales. There was the out-of-necessity finale within the spring, “The Tower,” which was imagined to be Season 10’s penultimate episode; there was “A Certain Doom,” the supposed finale, which aired as a standalone particular on Oct. four as a result of pandemic pushing completion of the episode again a number of months; and the final episode of the upcoming Season 10 extension, which can air early subsequent 12 months.
The extension, which was announced throughout The Strolling Useless‘s Comedian-Con@Dwelling panel in July, will encompass six extra episodes. The additional episodes will technically be a part of Season 10, however they’ll functionally be a mini-season that can bridge Season 10 and Season 11, which would be the present’s final season and start airing in late 2021.
We do not know precisely when the brand new episodes will attain our screens — AMC has solely stated “early 2021” — however the manufacturing is gearing as much as begin taking pictures at The Strolling Useless‘s studio facility in Georgia very quickly, with plans to go till Thanksgiving. This is what we do find out about the remainder of Season 10. We’ll replace this story as we be taught extra.
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It is going to be made as COVID-safely as potential
In an interview with Deadline, showrunner Angela Kang stated that the manufacturing deliberate its return to work round what a consulting epidemiologist advised them they wanted to do to verify the office could be as secure and union-compliant as potential. Meaning upgraded HVAC, air scrubbers, “UV gentle issues to zap germs on the phases,” and even a cellular testing lab onsite to get exams rotated as shortly as potential. She stated that The Strolling Useless has the advantage of having its personal studio and backlot facility, so the crew has a larger stage of management over their atmosphere than many different reveals are in a position to have.
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The protection protocols will have an effect on the storytelling
Kang stated that the six episodes will probably be smaller and extra intimate than typical as a consequence of compromises that needed to be made with the intention to get again into manufacturing. “The epidemiologist was saying like, yeah, we will get again to work safely, however, we can’t have like 300 zombie extras crammed right into a tiny house collectively,” the manager producer advised Deadline.
That signifies that the episodes will probably be character-focused and have “sort of an introspective exhale kind of a really feel,” in accordance with star Norman Reedus. Kang added that there will probably be fascinating dynamics between Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who has returned after years away and can discover a very totally different and far improved Negan than the one she left way back, when she vowed to get revenge on him for what he did to her husband, Glenn (Steven Yeun). The episodes can even begin to arrange the ultimate season, which will probably be two supersized, 12-episode halves and hopefully be made at full Strolling Useless blockbuster capability.
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Extra about Maggie
Maggie (and Cohan) quietly exited similtaneously Andrew Lincoln‘s Rick Grimes in Season 9, however is now returning full time. She reappeared within the nick of time in “A Sure Doom,” saving Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) from a sure doom alongside a mysterious martial artist in a metallic masks, who has not spoken or been formally launched. (“He is with me” is all Maggie stated about him.) There isn’t any comics counterpart for this character, and nobody is giving something away about who he’s.
Kang advised Deadline that we’ll discover out much more about what’s been happening with Maggie within the time she’s been away. “She has seen some darkish issues on the street, and clearly, like when she is available in, she’s with this man in like a metallic masks, and who is that this fellow, what adventures have they been on? That is all a part of the story going ahead, and it should drive one of many main missions that we’ll begin to see unfold,” Kang stated. “It should lead us to satisfy another fascinating characters that can cross into a few of the different main storylines of our collection going ahead.”
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The Commonwealth
“A Sure Doom” launched another masked figures, too. Eugene (Josh McDermitt) and his touring companions have been stunned in a rail yard by troopers in Stormtrooper-like fits with subtle weapons. Their look is similar to troopers from a group from the Strolling Useless comics referred to as the Commonwealth, a really technologically and culturally superior metropolis in Ohio, although within the present evidently the situation will probably be someplace in West Virginia. The comedian’s last arc offers with the Commonwealth.
“For individuals who do not know the comedian which can be following with the present, I will simply say that we’re about to get into much more story with these folks,” Kang advised Deadline. “I will additionally say, this deep into this new apocalypse, it ought to inform you straight away this is sort of a closely organized group, and the way do you even maintain white armor clear? What does that in and of itself like inform you about these folks?”
The Strolling Useless will return in early 2021 on AMC. Till then, Season 10 is obtainable to stream on AMC+ or to purchase on Amazon. Earlier seasons can be found to stream on Netflix.