Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) have come a long way since The Walking Dead. Here's everything you need to know before watching the premiere of The Walking Dead: Dead City. See it now on AMC+ or tonight on AMC.
The Walking Dead: Dead City is the 2023 AMC limited series spinning off from The Walking Dead.
Actors Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprise their roles as Maggie and Negan in the six-episode mini-series. The two, bitter enemies in the current leg of the series, will be paired on a mission to Manhattan, which is now cut off from mainland New York in the post-apocalyptic world. The city is inhabited by both the Dead, and remnants of the living who have carved out a new existence.
Also cast is Gaius Charles (Taken) as Izaak, who may be some kind of vigilante in the new Manhattan.
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 Walking Dead is the TV series adaptation of the Image Comics series created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard.
Developed by filmmaker Frank Darabount in 2010 for AMC TV, The Walking Dead quickly became the number one franchise for the cable network. The show followed the story arcs of the comics somewhat faithfully, starting with sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) who survives a gunshot wound that puts him in a coma. When we wakes up the world he knew is gone. In this new world, the dead rise as flesh-eating walkers and Rick embarks on a journey to find his family and lead them to safety.
Rick eventually reconnects with his wife (Sarah Wayne Callies), his son (Chandler Riggs), his best friend Shane (Jon Bernthal) and the crew of survivors they've made camp with. That initial groupw includes Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Glenn (Steven Yeun), Merle (Michael Rooker) and many more. The show spares no one their brutal fate is its massive cast of characters struggle to survive a world of decay and horror.
