More zombies are coming…and they’re falling from the sky!
At AMC’s WonderCon this weekend, a trailer for the Walking Dead spinoff Dead City was released. The six-episode series will follow Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) “as they travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.”
Cohan and Gaius Charles were present at the Dead City panel during WonderCon, along with showrunner Eli Jorné. “It’s The Walking Dead like we’ve never seen it before. We haven’t really lived in a city like this,” Jorné said. “It’s New York; there’s skyscrapers up to the sky and a million and a half walkers. And for characters like Maggie and Negan, who’ve been running through the woods for a long time, it’s just a whole new world that’s just extremely claustrophobic, scary, and also, as you’ll discover, has pockets of survivors, you’ll get to see all the strange new ways they live in the apocalypse, it’s definitely like nothing you’ve seen before.”
Regarding the main character’s relationship, Jorné further explained “It’s the next chapter in the story of Maggie and Negan, and so in that sense, it’s a lot of grief, trauma, and loss on both sides and how do you navigate that? How does Maggie look in Negan’s face every day and remember what he did to the love of her life? That’s still a huge part of the show. For anybody who’s watched the walking dead all these years and connected to those characters, we’re continuing the story, growing it, evolving it, and deepening it in a whole new landscape.”
The spinoff series also stars Jonathan Higginbotham, Mahina Napoleon, Trey Santiago-Hudson, and Charlie Solis.
Megan and Maggies’s new adventure in the big city will begin on June 18. Check the trailer below:
