Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe “Walking Dead” universe just got bigger.A spinoff series centered around Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira’s Michonne Hawthorne is set at AMC+, the two actors revealed in a surprise appearance at the last-ever “The Walking Dead” San Diego Comic-Con panel on Friday.
The limited series will consist of six episodes and is expected to premiere next year. Scott Gimple will serve as showrunner, and Lincoln and Gurira are executive producers.The spinoff is going forward in place of the previously announced “Walking Dead” films, which were set to be led by Lincoln.
According to its logline, the show “presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance.
By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living.
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