AMC Announces Maggie/Negan Spin-Off from The Walking Dead
AMC Networks announced today plans for yet another spin-off from The Walking Dead. Isle Of The Dead is a six-episode, 2023 series that will feature actors Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, reprising their roles as Maggie and Negan, on a nail-biting journey into post-apocalypse Manhattan. The island is now cut off from mainland New York and inhabited by both the Dead, and remnants of the living who have carved out a new existence.
Set to premiere on AMC+ and AMC in 2023, the first season will consist of six episodes. Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons and has an overall deal with AMC Studios, will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series, which is overseen by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe. Cohan and Morgan will also serve as executive producers.
The network also released this teaser key art for the series, which features the sealed doors on the Lincoln Tunnel, tagged with a callback to season one, "Don't Open. Dead Inside."
Gotham Knights Casts Bluebird
The first round of casting announcements for the pilot episode of Gotham Knights comes from Variety today. Actor Fallon Smythe (Grown-ish) and Tyler DiChiara (The Virgin of Highland Park) are the first actors attached to the series.
Smythe is set to play Harper Row who is described as "a gifted engineer who can fix anything." In the comics, she goes on to adopt the costumed persona of Bluebird. DiChiara plays Row's younger brother Cullen, who suffers transphobic bullying, which fuels his older sisters crusade.
The premise of the series involves Batman's adopted son, in the aftermath of Bruce Wayne's murder, forming a team from the children of bat-villains to clear all their names and find the true killer. The CW has ordered a pilot episode.
GCPD Spin-off of The Batman is "On Hold"
Last week, filmmaker Matt Reeves revealed that plans for expanding the world of The Batman onto HBO Max included two series: The Penguin origin series and one that, "connects to Arkham." At the time, it was unclear if that Arkham-related series was the same project as the long-discussed GCPD-focused series.
Now, Reeves has revealed in an interview that GCPD series is not moving forward at this time, which means the Arkham series is definitely a separate project.
"So, there is the Gotham police show...that one actually is put on hold," Reeves said in an interview with Josh Horwitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "We're not really doing that."
He goes on to reveal his Prince of the City take on Gotham and a corrupt cop who presides over the fallen city. Below is a snippet from the podcast episode that Horowitz posed on social media.
Young Justice Phantoms To Return This Month
Although HBO Max did not include it with their March listing, the fourth season of Young Justice (subtitled Phantoms) is confirmed to be returning this month. Series creator Greg Weisman tweeted out the news in a series of responses to fans of the show.
Weisman writes that the show, "is back this month!! (I now know the date but it hasn’t been announced yet.) But THIS MONTH!!"
Fans are eager for news of a fifth season, which hasn't been announced at all. Even if a fifth season doesn't happen, the showrunner did assure fans that season four will not leave anyone hanging.
"We've given closure every season," Weisman responded to one fan who requested story resolution. In a later response he added, "We’ve never ended a season on a cliffhanger."
