The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live will (presumably) reunite Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) — but from what’s showcased in the trailer for the upcoming series, it won’t be easy.
The trailer (watch it below) puts both characters, returning to the franchise after departing the flagship series several years ago, in bleak circumstances, with shots of Rick pressing a bullet against his forehead and Michonne running from what appears to be a chemical weapons attack.
At one point, Terry O’Quinn’s character, Beale, asks Rick, “Why are you here? Do you want to kill, or do you want to die?” To which Rick replies, “Look in my eyes, sir. You tell me.”
The official description for The Ones Who Live reads, “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?”
In addition to Lincoln, Gurira and O’Quinn, the series stars Lesley-Ann Brandt, Pollyanna McIntosh — again playing Jadis, the character who saved Rick back in season nine of The Walking Dead — and Matthew Jeffers.
The Walking Dead franchise creative head Scott M. Gimple serves as showrunner on The Ones Who Live and executive produces with Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth and Brian Bockrath.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres Feb. 25 on AMC and AMC+. The trailer is below.
