The Walking Dead: season 10 images and a new cast member

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Juan Javier Cardenas, pictured above in the FX series Snowfall, has joined the cast of AMC's The Walking Dead and will be showing up in the show's tenth season as a character named Dante. Readers of the Walking Dead comic book will know that Dante is a character from the source material who made his first appearance in issue #131 of the book (which recently came to an end at issue #193).

Showrunner Angela Kang describes Dante as 

this roguish, fast-talking, sometimes charming, sometimes annoying guy who can sometimes put his foot in his mouth, but is an interesting presence in the comics."

Kang acknowledged that Dante is a love interest for Maggie in the comic, but since there's no word when Maggie actress Lauren Cohan might show up on the show again 

the context is a little different, and he will play an important role in the story in Alexandria. So we’re excited about that."

The announcement of Cardenas's casting comes just as AMC has shared a handful of images to offer a preview of season 10, which has the following synopsis: 

The Walking Dead is a story that started 10 years ago with one man trying to find his family. That family grew and gradually communities took shape. They fought and survived, thrived and gave birth to a new generation. It is a tale of humankind and there are more stories to tell.

It is now Spring, a few months after the end of Season 9, when our group of survivors dared to cross into Whisperer territory during the harsh winter. The collected communities are still dealing with the after effects of Alpha’s horrific display of power, reluctantly respecting the new borderlines being imposed on them, all while organizing themselves into a militia-style fighting force, preparing for a battle that may be unavoidable.

But the Whisperers are a threat unlike any they have ever faced. Backed by a massive horde of the dead it is seemingly a fight they cannot win. The question of what to do and the fear it breeds will infect the communities and give rise to paranoia, propaganda, secret agendas, and infighting that will test them as individuals and as a society.

The very idea of whether civilization can survive in a world filled with the dead hangs in the balance.

In the images below you'll see The Walking Dead characters Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Magna (Nadia Hilker), Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), Judith (Cailey Fleming), Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Siddiq (Avi Nash), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Virgil (Kevin Carroll), some zombies, and what looks to be a moment of battle.

The Walking Dead season 10 begins airing on AMC on October 6th.