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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Season 1 finale.

“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” the newest spinoff of “The Walking Dead,” which premiered Sunday night on AMC.The series opens with Rick, who’s been working for the Civic Republic Military, being held prisoner, tethered by his wrist to a soldier to prevent him from escaping.Fans of “The Walking Dead” already know how tough Rick is — he’s made it this far in the zombie apocalypse universe, after all — but what he does next will make even the show’s most hardcore fans flinch in disbelief.Deciding that he needs a plan to escape, Rick says, “This is how,” before swinging an ax to chop off his left wrist — and then, in agony, cauterizing the wound in the flames of a dead zombie and trying to flee … though shortly afterward he’s recaptured.(He later escapes and wears a black glove on his left arm — complete with a switchblade.)So now Rick will go through this season of “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” sans his left hand, all while looking to reunite with his true love, Michonne (Danai Gurira), in their continuing fight against deadly zombies.The “Walking Dead” universe is, of course, based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series. In the comic book, Rick’s left hand is chopped off early on, in issue 28, by the Governor after he refuses to answer questions under interrogation.Showrunner Scott Gimple said that the decision to part Rick from his left hand came from Lincoln himself.“I played around with the idea but didn’t commit to it through all sorts of iterations of the story,” Gimple told Entertainment Weekly.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter For the first time since 2018, Rick Grimes and Michonne will be back together onscreen. “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” is now the seventh series in the zombie survival franchise overall and the third spinoff to feature main characters from the mothership show after “The Walking Dead: Dead City” and “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.” The show was originally planned as a series of movies, which were announced as soon as Rick Grimes actor Andrew Lincoln departed the main show in 2018.

Erik Jensen is battling cancer.

The Walking Dead, has been diagnosed with stage four cancer.The actor’s diagnosis was shared in a GoFundMe post by his family, who are hoping to raise $300,000 to “make it through the next year, pay for treatment to fight his cancer, keep their home, and maintain some sort of stability” for his wife Jessica and 13-year-old daughter Sadie.“After miraculously surviving a brain aneurysm just a year and a half ago, our beloved Erik Jensen was just diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer,” the page reads.“The cancer has metastasized to his liver, but Erik is young and strong (cutting a film during chemo, working full-time as a director and writer throughout) and his doctors think they have a shot at shrinking the tumors enough to do two very major surgeries and get them all out,” they added. “He can make it through this. But Erik and his family are in for the fight of their lives, and they need your support.”Jensen played Dr.

to be a six-episode series instead. And yet! If the strikes aren’t settled in the next month or so, will those premiere dates stick? FX already delayed its promising Brit Marling-Zal Batmanglij series “A Murder at the End of the World,” which was supposed to premiere in late August, to November, and Max delayed the second season of “Rap Sh!t” (also to November) so the talent on the show could do press.

Always growing. Since The Walking Dead premiered on AMC in 2010, viewers have been looking forward to all the different takes on the zombie apocalypse.

The Walking Dead fans got a huge surprise at Comic-Con last month when it was announced that the planned Rick Grimes-focused movie would be turning into a limited series with Rick, and Michonne.

AMC’s previously announced “Walking Dead” movie centered on Rick Grimes has been turned into a 6-episode streaming series for AMC+ that will also star Danai Gurira.Lincoln and Gurira joined Chief Content Officer of “The Walking Dead” universe Scott Gimple for a surprise announcement during the “Walking Dead” Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con. During the panel, Lincoln expressed his excitement to return and “get his boots back on.” “Michonne and this TWD family has meant so much to me, and to continue the journey of these beloved characters, alongside Scott and Andy, both creatively and in front of the camera, and bringing ‘The Walking Dead’ fans something truly special is just glorious,” Gurira said in a statement.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe “Walking Dead” universe just got bigger.A spinoff series centered around Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira’s Michonne Hawthorne is set at AMC+, the two actors revealed in a surprise appearance at the last-ever “The Walking Dead” San Diego Comic-Con panel on Friday. The limited series will consist of six episodes and is expected to premiere next year. Scott Gimple will serve as showrunner, and Lincoln and Gurira are executive producers.The spinoff is going forward in place of the previously announced “Walking Dead” films, which were set to be led by Lincoln.

returned to San Diego Comic-Con to preview the remaining episodes of its final season on AMC, Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira made a surprise appearance following the panel in Hall H. Lincoln, who originated the role of Rick Grimes, played the character for the first nine seasons before departing the zombie franchise. After his departure in 2018, it was reported that he was set to reprise his role in a trilogy of feature films.

Tales of the Walking Dead has just been released – check it out below.The spinoff series from the AMC show is set to be released next month, and promises a standalone narrative.Terry Crews, Parker Posey, Jillian Bell, Anthony Edwards, Poppy Liu and Olivia Munn all star in Tales of the Walking Dead, alongside Daniella Pineda.

The Walking Dead's flagship run, this final hiatus has a lot of fans looking ahead to where the franchise will go next with these familiar characters. After the still-airing Fear the Walking Dead and the limited World Beyond spinoff, the next big TWD spinoff was long ago revealed to be an on-the-road buddy drama focusing on two of the show's fan-favorite characters, Norman Reedus' Daryl and Melissa McBride's Carol. Those plans have now changed, however, as it appears McBride is no longer involved with the project.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMelissa McBride is no longer going to star in a Daryl-Carol “Walking Dead” spinoff at AMC, Variety has confirmed with sources.The show was originally announced in September 2020 with McBride and Norman Reedus set to star. The pair have long been praised for their characters’ onscreen chemistry, with Reedus and McBride currently being the only two cast members of the flagship show who have been onboard since Season 1.

It’s a wrap for Norman Reedus on “The Walking Dead”.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming AMC anthology series “Tales of the Walking Dead” is continuing to build out its cast.Variety has learned that Olivia Munn (“The Newsroom,” “X-Men: Apocalypse”), Danny Ramirez (“The Falcon & The Winter Soldier”), Loan Chabanol (“Fading Gigolo”), Embeth Davidtz (“Old,” “Ray Donovan”) and Jessie T. Usher (“Shaft,” “The Boys”) have all joined the series set in the “Walking Dead” universe. Previously announced cast members include Daniella Pineda, Terry Crews, Parker Posey, Poppy Liu, Anthony Edwards, and Jillian Bell.“Olivia, Danny, Loan, Embeth, and Jessie are the latest massive talents that will bring new worlds of TWD to life with big, daring, different, emotional, shocking, scary, and crazy stories.

The Walking Dead has just been released – check it out below.Disney+ have unveiled a one-minute clip teasing the forthcoming season 11B, which will mark the final set of episodes before the AMC flagship series ends.The Walking Dead returns next month on February 21, and will then continue in the form of several spin-off projects.Check out the new trailer here:A description of season 11B of The Walking Dead reads: “For all, their world is literally crashing down around them. Meanwhile, life in the Commonwealth is not as idyllic as it seems.“Will they be able to pick up the pieces and who will be alive to help? Will their relationships heal or fracture? Will olive branches be extended, accepted, or rejected? For some, hope will be renewed.

The Walking Dead producer Scott Gimple has warned the final season will be “very, very, very, very dark”.Teasing the forthcoming 11th season, set to air this summer on Disney+, Gimple spoke about what fans can expect after the Whisperer War.“There’s some sunshine between the gloom,” Gimple said during a recent TWDUniverse Twitch stream. “But the dark stuff gets very, very, very, very dark.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is getting real about The Walking Dead coming to an end.

The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has said the show’s creators “had no idea” that season 11 would have to be their last.The actor, who plays Negan in the AMC series, revealed that the news that The Walking Dead would be ending came as a surprise to the whole cast and crew.“The news, when we got it in the middle of the pandemic, was a complete surprise, not only to me and the rest of the actors, but to everybody involved in the show from production.

The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has confirmed when the first Rick Grimes spin-off movie is expected to start filming. Andrew departed from the series more than two years ago now, but there have been few updates since then related to the anticipated movie trilogy.

The Walking Dead‘s franchise head Scott Gimple has provided some hints about who may perish in the show’s season ten finale.The delayed episode – to finally be broadcast in the US on October 4 and in the UK on October 5 – will pitch the survivors against Beta and his horde, which surrounds the hospital.Gimple has now revealed in a Comic-Con@Home panel that whoever is looking after Judith and RJ should be careful, suggesting that they will be the ones to fall victim.

The Walking Dead despite starring as the show’s protagonist for nine seasons.That’s according to chief content officer Scott Gimple, who said in a new interview that Lincoln has stuck to his decision to never watch an episode.Lincoln, who portrayed former Georgia sheriff Rick Grimes in seasons one to nine, revealed in a 2017 interview with TV Insider that he has “chosen to ignore the whole thing” because he’s “allergic to my own face.”The actor said he doesn’t enjoy watching himself on screen

Andrew Lincoln revealed back in 2017 that he doesn’t watch his own show The Walking Dead and the series’ showrunner says he still hasn’t watched!

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Danai Gurira may have left The Walking Dead, but her time in the universe is not over. On Talking Dead after her final episode of the mothership show as Michonne, Walking Dead Universe chief creative officer Scott Gimple stopped short of announcing that Gurira will be joining Andrew Lincoln in the upcoming Walking Dead movie(s), but he hinted that this was not the last we'll see of the sword-swinging survivor Michonne. "Her story isn't done," he said.

Danai Gurira may have left The Walking Dead, but her time in the universe is not over. On Talking Dead after her final episode of the mothership show as Michonne, Walking Dead Universe chief creative officer Scott Gimple stopped short of announcing that Gurira will be joining Andrew Lincoln in the upcoming Walking Dead movie(s), but he hinted that this was not the last we'll see of the sword-swinging survivor Michonne. "Her story isn't done," he said.