What happened to the Walking Dead movies?

Rick Grimes holding a gun in The Walking Dead
(Image credit: AMC)

The Walking Dead movies are officially dead. But, in true zombie fashion, they have snapped back to life in a new form entirely. The trilogy starring Andrew Lincꦑoln's Rick Grimes is now a l﷽imited series starring Grimes and Danai Gurira's Michonne.

So… what happened? Below, we’ll run through the story of The Walking Dead movies: the original outline, its potted history, and its eventual demise and rebirth as a TV series. Plus, for more on the main show’s television future, be sure to check out 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Walki🎃ng Dead season 11 return date.

 What happened to The Walking Dead movies?

Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead

(Image credit: AMC)

Originally envisioned as a trilogy, The Walking 𒀰Dead movi♛es were first announced in 2018 by chief content officer Scott Gimple. 

, "We're following the same general plan but movies take a little longer and we're playing with it in all sorts of directions. "And then, the pandemic happened, which gave us the opportunity or the necessity to do that. We're still doing that. Andrew [Lincoln] is super involved. [Robert Kirkman] is super involved. It really is proceeding. It's ♏just that current circumstances have given us a little extra time that we seem to need anyways. We really want to do it righ♎t."

In 2021, Lincoln told sister publication 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine that he was “not filming” anything to do with The Walking Dead movies at t🅠he current time.

Despite news of The Walking Dead movies coming in fits and spurts, The Walking Dead series (and its World Beyond spin-off) helped lay the groundwork for the story to come. Danai Gurira’s Micho🌠nne left the show (and Alexandria) in search of Rick after coming across a phone case seemingly left by her lover as a message to keep looking for him.

World Beyond, meanwhile, featured the last person to see Rick alive: Jadis. There, it was heavily implied that she handed over Rick as a “B” subject to the Civic Republic Milita▨ry.ꦑ What happened to him, however, was something that was never fully addressed. 

Finally, at SDCC 2022, news arrived that The Walking Dead movies had been canceled and replaced by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a limited series about Rick Grimes. Lincoln and Gurira will both reprise their roles from the series. The show, which consists of six episodes, will air in 2023. No spoilers here but The Walking Dead season 11🔥 (and series) finale helped set up the story to cဣome. 


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