Norman Reedus Says His Daryl Dixon Spinoff Will Be "Completely Different" From THE WALKING DEAD
While The Walking Dead is coming to a close, fans are looking forward to some of the cool spinoffs that are happening in the world of the flagship series, namely the Daryl Dixon series that will star Norman Reedus; the Rick and Michonne series starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira; and the Maggie/Negan show starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
While we’ve heard small tidbits about where some of these shows will take place, we haven’t heard much else. But in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Norman Reedus described his new series and how it came to be, saying:
"These talks about the spin-off had been going on for two years. It was a good year before they announced that The Walking Dead was going to end. And over the course of time, it kind of changed directions multiple times."
The show is not only a follow-up to The Walking Dead but is also connected somehow to the mid-credits scene from The Walking Dead: World Beyond finale, in which a scientist in an abandoned French lab was shot after watching videos from Dr. Edwin Jenner (from Season 1 of the original series) about tests being done on variant walkers. AMC president Dan McDermott says the spin-off will "follow Daryl as he wakes up and finds himself somewhere on the European continent and tries to piece together what happened. How did he get here? How's he going to get home?"
The series was originally going to follow Daryl and Carol, but Melissa McBride pulled out of the series after it was decided that it would shoot overseas.
Reedus is currently in France starting work on scouting locations for the show, and he explained that the new series is going to take a totally different direction from what fans are used to, saying:
"We knew we wanted to make a show that went in the opposite direction, just because we didn't want to do the same thing. So that's what we're doing. And it's going to be way different. The story's way different. The characters are way different. There's a different tone, there's different light, there's a different sound. It's a whole different vibe."
He went on to add that it's not simply the French setting that will make the new series so great:
"I've been going on location scouts here and stuff, but it's even more than just location. It's all the things we love about those characters and those shows, but It's going to be brand new, which I'm excited about."
As excited as the actor is for everyone to see the end of the series that launched him to stardom, he is just as pumped for everyone to enjoy act two of his Daryl Dixon journey. Promises the star, "This is going to be f---ng epic."
