Teaser Trailer For THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE Continues Rick and Michonne's Story
During AMC’s big presentation for The Walking Dead franchise at Comic-Con, they premiered the first trailer for the upcoming Rick and Machine series, which is titled The Walking Dead: The One Who Live. It doesn’t offer many details on the story, but it does tease the continuing adventures of Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira).
The series tells the story of the couple reuniting after Rick is presumed to be The Walking Dead’s ninth season. However, fans learned that Rick had survived and Michonne set out on her own journey to find Rick.
It’s been more than six years since Rick disappeared from his group in the mysterious CRM helicopter with Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh). Showrunner Scott M. Gimple previously shared that this "epic love story" reuniting Rick and Michonne and that it takes place in a location never before seen in The Walking Dead Universe. "The discovery of individual new worlds is critical," Gimple said, adding that Rick "discovered a new world" when he woke up from a coma in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang noted we last saw Michonne "somewhere in between" Virginia and New Jersey, headed north and trailing a large migrant caravan journeying in that same direction. They may have been the displaced survivors of Portland, Oregon, a community of 87,000 survivors targeted by Jadis and the CRM's second chemical strike on World Beyond. (That series ended with the people of The Perimeter — a smaller colony of survivors in Ithaca, New York — traveling cross-country on a mission to warn Portland.)
The series description reads:
"This 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 Ones Who Live is set to premiere in 2024 on AMC.