The Walking Dead limited event series to bring back dead characters

Scott Gimple and AMC are planning more THE WALKING DEAD in the future. This includes more FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, more THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND, and an unspecified number of limited event series – which TWD chief content officer teases will bring back dead characters.

As you might imagine, I hope they bring back Shane.

Gimple says:

We really do want to come out with different TV formats, meaning shorter things, and then some event series, limited event series. I’m trying to get together a number of different things that we can show at different times during the year, and this focuses on characters we miss and we lost. 

He continues: 

It focuses on aspects of that new mythology. It focuses on stories that occur in our universe and have nothing to do with anything. Nothing to do with the shows or the movies, that are just these little zombie tales that happen in our world with our rules and our timeline but are just really great zombie stories, really great stories of the end of the world. I’ve been working on that with a variety of people, and that’s actually proving to be super fun and interesting.

So will these limited series fill-in backstories for characters? Gimple says:

That’s exactly what we’re doing. I mean, it isn’t the only thing we’re doing. It’s not like everything is like Gotham, but that’s one of the sort of three kinds of categories that we’re tackling. It’s awesome. It’s awesome to be able to play with characters that we’ve lost, and it’s awesome to fill in some of the blanks.

Are you excited about these planned THE WALKING DEAD limited event series? Which dead characters would YOU like to see return? Let us know below! In the meantime, mark your calendars as THE WALKING DEAD returns for the rest of its tenth season on February 23, 2020.