Universal Pictures has reportedly held talks with film director Craig Zobel to direct the play walking dead Film starring Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. The untitled feature, which AMC announced was the first in a trilogy after Lincoln exited the TV show in 2018, will be replaced by the new series announced during San Diego Comic-Con. Described as “an epic love story of two characters changed by a changing world,” it’s set to premiere with six episodes in 2023 on AMC+ and will reunite Lincoln’s Michonne Rick and Danny Gurira after they starred together in seven seasons of the walking Dead.
according to LimitZobel is in talks with Universal to direct walking dead The franchise’s first feature film before it became a series. Scott Gimple, showrunner Rick / Michonne Chain and Chief Content Officer at AMC walking dead Universe announced the project as a series of AMC Studios Original Films in November 2018. In July 2019, a mysterious teaser announced that Rick’s return would be “in theaters only” and distributed by Universal Pictures instead of airing on AMC.
Zobel is famous for directing good review Zachariasa post-apocalyptic thriller centered on a love triangle, and the hunta controversial Universal horror and action-driven political satire from Blumhouse producer Jason Blum.
It is not clear whether the Emmy-nominated director for the HBO Limited Series East Town mare may drive Rick / Michonne AMC + series. Zobel has TV directing experience, directing episodes American GodsAnd the leftoversAnd the WestworldAnd the forsakenCinemax, the horror and drama series based on the comic book of the same name by the walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman.
“Wait to put the cowboy boots back on and get the band back together,” Gurira told Comic-Con audiences during a surprise appearance on stage with Lincoln at Hall H.
when announcing walking dead Trilogy In 2018, AMC said the first film “explores the story of where Rick took and what he encounters in a new corner of the zombie apocalypse” after Jadis/Ann (Polyana Macintosh) flies him away aboard a Civic Republic military helicopter. In the tenth season of the walking DeadGurira is exited from the series when Michonne sets out to find the missing Rick more than six years after he was presumed dead.
AMC describes the story of Rick and Michonne: “This series presents the epic love story of two characters who are changed by a changing world. They are separated by a distance. With unstoppable force. With ghosts from Kanna. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, based on a war against the dead…and in The end is a war against the living. Can they find each other and who have been in a different place and situation than any they have known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims or victors? Without each other, are they alive – or will they also find that they are the walking dead? ”
Lincoln and Gurira Rick / Michonne The series premiered in 2023 on AMC+.
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