The Walking Dead third spin-off gets director & cast

July 19th 2019, 6:20pm

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

THE WALKING DEAD is a big presence at this year's Comic-con. We just shared a trailer for the upcoming tenth season (you can check it out below) and already we have big updates on the upcoming currently untitled third spin-off series. First, the pilot of this new spin-off will be directed by KONG: SKULL ISLAND helmer Jordan Vogt-Roberts and it will star Aliyah Royale (as character named Iris) along with Annet Mahendru (as Huck), Alexa Mansour (as Hope), Nicolas Cantu (as Elton), and Hal Cumpston (as Silas).

While specific details about the new actors/characters are being kept under wraps we do know the straight-to-series 10-episode drama will feature two young female protagonists and will "focus on the first generation to come of age in the apocalypse as viewers know it." The Lord of the Flies-like series will feature a new corner of the world. Here's AMC's formal description:

Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.

Scott Gimple spoke about the third series, describing how kids have grown up in a community that was relatively safe from the apocalypse:

There's a big secret about the Walking Dead universe. All these years we've just seen a tiny sliver of the Walking Dead world. There's a whole lot of world out there. The big secret is that all along, there have been other civilizations that survived the apocalypse. We saw hints of that in season seven of The Walking Dead and again in 'The End of Everything,' and now we're about to show a lot more of the world in a bunch of different projects. These kids can grow up in a place of comfort and security, but they leave everything on a dangerous quest and are being pursued by adults on their own. We'll see kids become heroes and some become villains. We're going to open up a whole new world of TWD.

The untitled WALKING DEAD spin-off is created by Gimple and Matt Negrete, who will serve as showrunner. Production on the series will begin next week in Richmond, Va. for a premiere on AMC sometime in 2020. We'll let you know when we hear more.