At this weekend’s virtual Skybound Xpo panel — Skybound: Past, Present, and Future — Skybound co-founder and Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman gave fans an update on the Rick Grimes sequel movie, which will follow Andrew Lincoln’s character Rick following his departure from the TV series in Season 9.
In The Walking Dead’s Season 10, star Danai Gurira left the series in an episode where her character, Michonne, discovered that
Rick might still be alive. Gurira is expected to join Lincoln in the spinoff movie.
“There’s tons of stuff going on behind the scenes,” Kirkman said. “I don’t want anyone to think that we’re just kind of waiting around for this pandemic to end.”
“I would say that, if anything, the pandemic is going to make a lot of movies better,” he added. “I think the Rick Grimes movie chief among them, just because we’re getting a lot more time to cook this thing and make sure it’s perfect.”
“But when things do quiet down, you guys are going to hear a ton more about this movie.”
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The Walking Dead’s Season 10 finale never aired, due to the pandemic interrupting the post-production work needed to complete the episode, so fans have been left stranded on the precipice of a brutal war with Beta and his horde of walkers for months now.
Also delayed due to COVID-19 is The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the franchise’s second official spinoff, which was set to premiere back on April 12.
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