Rick & Michonne Get Walking Dead Spinoff
A new spin-off from The Walking Dead is in the works, this one revisiting the fates of Rick Grimes and Michonne Hawkthorne, according to a report from Variety. The news was announced at the weekend's Comic-Con, where stars Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira appeared for the unveiling.
The show is conceived as a six-episode mini-series, and it replaces the long-dormant Walking Dead movie that was announced years ago. Scott M. Gimple is serving as showrunner with Lincoln and Gurira executive producing.
The logline provided for the show tells us that the series, "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. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?"
The announcement also came with the key art below, featuring Michonne's katana planted on the ground, and bearing a note that reads, "The new world's gonna need Rick Grimes." Plans are for the series to debut next year.
The Goon Movie Headed for Netflix
Collider reports that the long-gestating animated feature film version of The Goon is still in the works. The word comes straight from animator/director Tim Miller (Deadpool) who spoke at the weekend's Comic-Con International. Miller also said that the movie is headed to Netflix, home of his much-buzzed-about animated anthology series Love, Death + Robots.
Miller has been workin with LD+R partner and producer David Fincher and the comic's creator Eric Powell for over a decade to bring the CGI-animated adaptation to the big screen. In 2012 they debuted test reel for the work with actor Paul Giamatti (American Splendor) voicing the title character's sidekick, Franky. Miller did not comment on Fincher or Giamatti at the most recent mention.
