The Walking Dead: Dead City spin-off will feature an awesome, disgusting, terrifying walker

Although an insane number of zombies, or walkers if you prefer, were dispatched over the course of The Walking Dead‘s eleven seasons, it was always other people that were the greatest threat to the group of survivors the show followed. And while that will probably continue to be the case on the upcoming spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City – which focuses on the characters Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and is set to reach AMC and AMC+ sometime in June 2023 – we’re also going to be seeing some interesting zombie moments on the new show. In fact, Scott M. Gimple, the Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe, says The Walking Dead: Dead City will feature a particularly awesome, disgusting, terrifying walker.

Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons, serves as showrunner on The Walking Dead: Dead City, which will see Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

During a conversation with Collider, Jorné said the move to Manhattan makes The Walking Dead: Dead City something different from the other Walking Dead shows because “The universe has never really lived in a city, the way it will, and in a city like New York, especially. Just environmentally and architecturally, there are so many new ways that we can experience walkers that you couldn’t have. There’s the verticality of the city, and that alone has been the gift that keeps on giving with walkers. People’s relationship to the walkers is also interesting. How do you survive in that city, with that many walkers, as we’ll come to see, and the way that they are? You’ll see interesting new walker experiences, but also those ripple effects of, how do you survive in a city with walkers? In The Walking Dead, they fought a lot of walkers in the woods, but there were a lot of stretches of woods where you could just hike and camp out. You don’t get to do that as much in the city.“

That’s when Gimple added, “There are some incredibly notable walkers this season. There’s one that I think will both invoke awe in people, but they also might throw up. It is one of the most awesome, disgusting, terrifying walkers that I’ve seen in the history of the show. There are a number of horrific walkers, but there is a mind-bendingly horrific walker coming up that I wasn’t on set for, and I’m glad I wasn’t.” Gimple said the sight of this walker might even make some viewers throw up.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Cohan revealed that The Walking Dead: Dead City will pick up “a few years” after the conclusion of The Walking Dead.

Joining Cohan and Morgan in the cast are Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i), Zeljko Ivanek (Madam Secretary), and Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale). Details on their characters are being kept under wraps, but we do know that Gaius Charles (Fright Night Lights) is playing Izaak, who is “confident, ruthless, and unyielding in the pursuit of what he believes is justice, with the force of his will and his menace. Izaak enjoys his work and intersperses humor with the terror he incites. This is a family man, devoted to building a safe world for his wife and daughters. His journey unearths a loss he is haunted by. He has patience and resilience and walks rather than runs from his mistakes.”

Undead Walking suggests that Karina Ortiz (Orange Is the New Black) and Caleb Reese Paul (The Other Two) may be in the cast as well, but their involvement hasn’t been officially announced at this point.

Cohan, Morgan, and Jorné are executive producing The Walking Dead: Dead City with Gimple.

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