The Walking Dead is over, but there are several spin-offs on the way. Norman Reedus will continue playing the character Daryl Dixon on a spin-off that takes place in France and is going by the title The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan will be back as Negan and Maggie for The Walking Dead: Dead City (which was formerly known as Isle of the Dead). Andrew Lincoln and Dana Gurira will reunite as Rick Grimes and Michonne for their own limited series. Plus there’s going to be more Fear the Walking Dead and Tales of the Walking Dead. While marking the end of The Walking Dead at the finale’s premiere event, Reedus, Morgan, and Cohan also took a moment to discuss their upcoming spin-offs.
Reedus told The Hollywood Reporter that The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon “is very different – it has a different tone, the photography is very different, it’s all in French, the zombie threat is different. After 12 years, it feels nice, [doing] some of the things I’d always hoped to be able to do.“
Filming on The Walking Dead: Dead City recently wrapped. Cohan said, “I think the fans are going to enjoy characters that they love being seen in new challenges and maybe seeing each other again.“
Morgan mentioned that working on a different Walking Dead show without the rest of the show’s ensemble was “weird”. “Looking at video village or the cast chairs, like, where is everybody? It’s just different. I’m happy to still be playing Negan, but I’m sad I don’t get an opportunity to work with these folks anymore… unless I do!“
Reedus is joined in the cast of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon by Clémence Poésy (Tenet) and Adam Nagaitis (The Terror). Poésy will be playing Isabelle, “a member of a progressive religious group, who joins forces with Daryl (Reedus) on a journey across France and finds herself confronting her dark past in Paris.” The character Nagaitis will be playing is Quinn, “a displaced Brit who has become powerful in post-apocalyptic Paris as a black marketeer and the owner of the Demimonde, a sexy underground nightclub.”
Details on the roles Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i), Zeljko Ivanek (Madam Secretary), and Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale) play in The Walking Dead: Dead City are being kept under wraps, but we know 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.”
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