Romance isn’t dead, it’s undead. Just watch the above New York Comic-Con teaser for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, and you’ll see exactly what we mean.
In the pulse-pounding clip, Andrew Lincoln’s embattled OG Rick is heard in voiceover telling Danai Gurira’s Michonne, “I tried to get away. Please know I tried… but I failed.
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“Just know,” he adds. “I love you.” (Sniffle.)
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Also during AMC’s Daryl Dixon panel Thursday, the network announced that Pollyanna McIntosh, who played Jadis on not only The Walking Dead but spinoff World Beyond, would be reprising her role on The Ones Who Live, and Lost vet Terry O’Quinn would be playing Beale. They join a cast that we already knew includes Lucifer’s Lesley-Ann Brandt as Pearl.
You’ll recall that when Lincoln made his last appearance on the mothership back in 2018, AMC said that his embattled character’s story would be continuing in a series of movies. Four years later, AMC disclosed a change of plans: The movies wouldn’t be movies anymore but a six-episode limited series that would also star Lincoln’s longtime leading lady Gurira.
Per the official logline for The Ones Who Live, which is slated to premiere in February 2024, “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 “Richonne” drama marks the sixth spinoff in the franchise, following Fear the Walking Dead (which returns with its final six episodes on October 22), the two-season World Beyond, the anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead, the Negan/Maggie rematch Dead City (which has been renewed for Season 2) and Daryl Dixon (which airs its Season 1 finale Sunday at 9/8c).
Press PLAY on the video at the top of this post to check out the teaser.
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