Fans The walking dead were in for a treat on Sunday when AMC dropped a short trailer for the highly anticipated spinoff featuring the return of Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira.
The Living Dead: Those Who Live — which will premiere on February 25, 2024, on AMC and AMC+ — will follow the epic love story between married couple Rick Grimes (Lincoln) and Michonne (Guriro), who first met on The walking dead. Both exited the series before it ended after 11 seasons in November 2022.
“People go, ‘Where did you go?’ “Lincoln 50, says the teaser. “Our ambition is to have some answers.”
‘The Walking Dead’: Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira’s Rick and Michonne Spinoff Gets a Title — and a Trailer!
“It’s a really exciting story to tell,” adds Gurira, 45. “These two people are so powerful and they’re crazy together. This is some crazy love.”
The clip reveals how far the two characters will go in their quest to reunite. Rick was presumed dead when he left The walking dead in Season 9 after she blew up a bridge to prevent a walker invasion, but Michonne later learned that her husband had survived and set out to find him in Season 10.
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Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln in ‘The Walking Dead’. Jackson Lee Davis/AMC
Both later appeared in a post-credits scene of sorts in the show’s season finale, setting up the quest that would play out in their limited series spinoff.
“The Living Dead: Those Who Live presents an epic love story of two characters who have been changed by the world,” reads the description of the series. “Separated by distance. With unstoppable power. By the spirits of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And finally, a war against the living. Could they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they had ever known before? Are they enemies? lovers? Victims? The winners? Are they even alive without each other – or will they discover that they too are the Living Dead?”
In addition to starring in the series, Lincoln and Gurira will also executive produce alongside showrunner Scott M. Gimple, Denise Huth and Brian Bockrath. The spinoff will replace the Rick Grimes movies that were first announced when Lincoln left TWD in 2018
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This will be the sixth spinoff to come from The walking deadwhich itself is an adaptation of the comic series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard.
Fear the living dead, the first installment of the franchise, ended its eight-season run on Sunday. Others are included The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020–21), Stories about the walking dead (2022) as well as The Walking Dead: Dead City and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and both premiered this year. They follow fan favorite characters Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Daryl (Norman Reedus).
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Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 Todd Williamson/AMC/Shutterstock Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira surprise ‘Walking Dead’ fans at Comic-Con with spinoff series News
At San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Lincoln and Gurira surprised the crowd by revealing that The Living Dead: Those Who Live was on the way.
“We’ve been… preparing something for all of you because we’ve missed you and we owe it to you to finish this Rick and Michonne story,” Gurira said at the time.
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“I personally can’t wait to get my cowboy boots back on and get the band back together,” added Lincoln.
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