‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’: Negan and Maggie-focused spin-off launches its intense first teaser

In October 2010, the pilot for ‘The Walking Dead’ was released. We didn’t know to what extent, but that would be the beginning of a global audience phenomenon that would lead to a long-lasting and branching TV franchise. Twelve years and eleven seasons later, the parent series has come to an end, but obviously AMC has no plans to part with its most successful property, with several spin-offs already confirmed that will expand its universe in the coming years.

One of them is “The Walking Dead: Dead City”, focused on two of the most popular characters from the main series, Negan and Maggie. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan return to the saga as protagonists a series of 6 episodes which will take us to the island of Manhattan to show us the effects of the zombie epidemic in another part of the country.

The spin-off takes place two years after the end of ‘The Walking Dead’ and in it we will see the once enemies, now allies, facing together a new set of dangers and threats. The relationship between Negan and Maggie during the parent series was very complex, especially since the villain killed her husband, Glenn (Steven Yeun), in one of the most brutal and commented scenes of the franchise. Since then, Negan has taken the side of the good guys and ended up getting close to Maggie, which brings us to “Dead City,” where they team up against the walkers of post-apocalyptic Manhattan.

The brief but intense preview offers us a glimpse of the area, long isolated from the rest of the country, where walkers have made the place their own and continue to evolve. AMC’s official synopsis for the series reads as follows: “The ruined city is filled with the dead and inhabitants who have turned New York into their own world of anarchy, danger, beauty and terror”. Eli Jorné, producer of the original series, serves as showrunner. While there is no release date yet, ‘Dead City’ is scheduled for April 2023.

The other spin-offs

‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ is just one of several spin-offs with which AMC intends to continue to push the boundaries of its popular action-horror franchise. it is also ongoing a series centered on Daryl Dixon, the character played by Norman Reedus (it was originally a spin-off about Daryl and Carol, but Melissa McBride left the project), and another with Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira again as Rick Grimes and Michonne, following his return for the parent series finale. Without forgetting, of course, the first spin-off of the ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ saga, which began in 2015 and which will continue with its eighth season in 2023.