Veteran WALKING DEAD Writer/Producer Set to Showrun Anthology Spin-Off Series TALES OF THE WALKING DEAD
The Walking Dead flagship series is coming to an end, and the future is branching off into new shows and a future film that fans have been looking forward to for quite some time. One of the new series is the anthology spin-off titled Tales of The Walking Dead.
Created by former Walking Dead showrunner and current Walking Dead Universe chief content officer Scott Gimple, Tales is “an episodic anthology that tells tales about new or existing characters — including returning fan-favorites who have already died.” According to Gimple, Tales is a "grab-bag" made up of individual episodes or arcs of episodes revealing backstories or other stand-alone experiences across different periods in the Walking Dead zombie apocalypse.
Channing Powell, a veteran writer-producer of The Walking Dead since its fourth season in 2013, will serve as showrunner on Tales of the Walking Dead. Powell revealed the news on Instagram, in the description that reads, “Showrunner (for now) of anthology series Tales of The Walking Dead”.
Gimple recently gave the following update about the series during a recent stream with TWDUniverse:
"We're working on it. Our operating principle right now is single hours that are very different week to week. We've left the door open to tell longer maybe multi-episode stories in the universe. We want to keep it really flexible. But to start out with, we want a bunch of very different stories where the audience isn't going to know what to expect."
Describing Tales as more Twilight Zone and less American Horror Story, the anthology spin-off "goes back to those questions people have been asking about different situations, or what happened with different characters that we have had already, and then things that are just not related to anything we've told," Gimple said. "That's the kind of thing we want to do. We're working on it hard."
It’s fun to hear what is coming up in the Walking Dead universe, and it sounds like it’s a labor of love for all those involved.
Tales of The Walking Dead does not yet have a release date, so stay tuned.
via: CB