Though it’s still one of the best performers on television, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” isn’t the juggernaut it once was. Even so, upcoming spin-off films featuring the return of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) are anticipated and will allow the series to go places it in the past hasn’t had the budget for.
This weekend comic creator and the show’s executive producer Robert Kirkman revealed that he will be “intimately involved” in the upcoming film take on the property, saying before now he hasn’t really talked publicly about his involvement in the films for AMC and Universal. He says (via CinemaBlend):
“I am very involved in those. I’m talking to Andrew Lincoln quite frequently, working with David Alpert and Scott Gimple, working with Universal, AMC getting that in shape. It’s very important to us that these movies are spectacular.
I think that to have Andrew Lincoln reprising his role as Rick Grimes is a very special thing and if we were to do these movies in any way that was in any way lackluster I think would be a disservice to him, a disservice to the character of Rick Grimes and a disservice to the fans.
So I’ve been very hands on with shaping that story and making sure that things are on the up and up. We’re all working very hard to bring you the best possible movie. That and the pandemic are why there’s been a bit of a delay in news about that. I’ve now probably already said too much and I’m involved in that movie a bit.”
Filming hasn’t begun on the first film which will continue off where the ninth season left him with Pollyanna McIntosh’s Jadis putting an injured Rick on a helicopter to places unknown while Danai Gurira’s Michonne sets off after him. No word as to a potential release strategy either.
