Alongside releasing a new teaser trailer, AMC Networks announced that The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, the upcoming spinoff starring Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira's Michonne, will premiere on February 25, 2024.
The news was shared during the series finale of Fear the Walking Dead, and the trailer features Lincoln and Gurira teasing what fans can expect from this "epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world."
We're here for the return of #Richonne. #TheOnesWhoLive premieres on February 25th on AMC and AMC+. pic.twitter.com/g3YmzKNBjy
— The Walking Dead (@WalkingDead_AMC) November 20, 2023
As they speak, we get a glimpse of the series in action and some of the key players that will fill out its world, including Lost star Terry O'Quinn's Beale, Matt Jeffries' Nat, and Lesley-Ann Brandt's Thorne.
"The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live 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," the official description reads. "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?"
This series was originally planned to be a Rick Grimes movie and was announced in 2022 for a 2023 premiere. The movie that is now a series will continue the story of Rick, who was last scene in Season 9 of The Walking Dead being flown away by a helicopter after being seriously injured. Michonne left the show a season later after discovering Rick may still be alive.
For more, check out our review of Season 1 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and the news that Melissa McBride will officially be a series regular as Carol in the second season of the show.
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