Rick Grimes's WALKING DEAD Movie Will Go in 'Wild New Directions' and Discover a Much Bigger World Than Before
There are a lot of irons in the fire over at AMC concerning The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Talking Dead, the new upcoming spin-off series, and the Rick Grimes spin-off movies that are headed to theaters. Both spin-off projects have been a long time coming, with fans hearing about their conception what seems like a pretty long time ago. We have gotten very little information since then, and this article doesn’t really change that, but it does kind of let us know where they are in the process of creating the first film.
The Walking Dead TV series and franchise chief content officer Scott M. Gimple recently sat down with EW, and he beat around the bush as to when and where shooting would begin, but he did say the script is almost finished. He said they are refining it, and “It’s coming together amazingly, but we’re trying to make this very special for everybody involved and we’re holding our feet to the flames.” He said a director has not been chosen, but did have a response when asked about the story. He said:
We are going to continue to tell Rick’s story, and we are going to discover so much of the world through that story. Rick will be challenged in different ways that, in some ways, everything that he’s been through has sort of prepared him for. It’s a much larger world than one that he had been operating in, and that was challenging in and of itself. Now things are heightened, and just as we’re going to the movies — and it is the movies proper, suitably wide screen — we’re going to be filling that screen with a brand new world.
He went on to say that they are working with a much bigger budget, on a much bigger scale, but it’s still essentially The Walking Dead. He said it’s challenging, but they are taking it very seriously for fans, because they “really want to deliver them something special.”
So, still nothing revelatory, but good to know that it’s being worked on, and we should be hearing more and more as the movie gets closer. The Untitled Walking Dead movie is currently in pre-production, and will star Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and Pollyanna McIntosh as Anne/Jadis.
Are you looking forward to seeing the continuation of Rick Grimes’ story in theaters?