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Even before its 2022 finale, the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead was expanding. Fear the Walking Dead kicked off the spinoff trend, and shows like Daryl Dixon, World Beyond, Dead City, and Tales of the Walking Dead followed. Now, the most highly anticipated of those shows, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, is set to debut, and with it, the show’s producer has teased something that sounds awfully familiar.You Should Really Watch The Last of UsThe Ones Who Live, which premieres February 25, brings back original main…

Screenshot: Lucasfilm, Zentropa/Peacock, Image: 20th Century Studios, Hasbro, WWE, Playmates, Harper Voyager, BBC, Robert Gill and Guru-eFX/Marvel Comics, AMCThis week on io9 The Bad Batch got us thinking about Dark Disciple, the Battle of Boz Pity, and so much Nightsister magic with the reveal that Asajj Ventress is the latest Star Wars character to cheat death. Read on for more on that, plus even more of our most-read stories of the week! —James Whitbrook Screenshot: Lucasfilm, Zentropa/Peacock, Image: 20th Century…

A crop of new key art for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.Image: AMCIn one month, two of The Walking Dead’s most popular characters return. Rick and Michonne, played by Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, are back on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, and now its final trailer has been released.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie Much like the last few trailers, there’s still no hint in this newest tease that the zombie-killing lovers reunite in this series. We’re guessing they do. It would be a…

Michonne finds herself in a real Lord of the Rings situation.Screenshot: AMCWe’ve already seen multiple teases of the highly anticipated, long-awaited Walking Dead spinoff featuring Rick and Michonne—but now, the full trailer is here. And it’s not what you’re expecting. You Should Really Watch The Last of UsAndrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira both reprise their star-making roles on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which premieres on AMC February 25. After each character left the main show, breadcrumbs to their whereabouts…

The walking dead are still dead, still walking, and still causing all sorts of zombie apocalypse problems in the new trailer for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. The upcoming spin-off, premiering Feb. 25 on AMC+, will notably feature the return of Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira’s Michonne. Both characters were integral to the original show’s run, with Rick serving as its center point for nine seasons and Michonne joining in Season Three and eventually becoming Rick’s romantic partner.…

Image: Paramount, 20th Century Studios, and GizmodoAnother San Diego Comic-Con is in the books, and this year was perhaps one of the weirdest in recent history—even counting those “@Home” years. As the lack of major attendees and the lingering shadows of Hollywood’s labor movement saw a more muted Hall H at San Diego this year, earth-shattering nerd news wasn’t to be found at Comic-Con. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty to celebrate and read about anyway.io9 was, as always, on the ground in San Diego this past…

Image: AMCAMC’s The Walking Dead went through plenty of characters during its 11-season run, but the departure of Andrew Lincoln’s leading man Rick Grimes was a momentous shakeup. Next to him, one of the biggest characters to leave the show alive was Danai Gurira’s Michonne, and the pair eventually fell in love before Rick was written out of the show in season nine. Michonne was written out the following season, but the series finale for the lead show of the Walking Dead universe ended with a tease that that the two would…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosWe’ve known Black Panther and Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler has been interested in making a Wakanda-set TV series for a few years now. We’ve even heard rumors that Danai Gurira, who plays Okoye, the former general of the elite female soldiers known as the Dora Milaje, was signed up to star. But now, thanks to Gurira, we finally have... an incredibly vague hint that the TV series is maybe possibly happening.Gurira was on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert when the talk show host asked her…

Rick and Michonne’s show debuts in 2024.Image: AMCThe main Walking Dead show may be over but the franchise has just begun. AMC just revealed its release schedule for the rest of the series’ spin-offs, including three previously announced ones following Negan and Maggie, Daryl, and Rick and Michonne.It’ll all kick off on May 14 for the eighth and final—yes, final—season of Fear the Walking Dead. Much like The Walking Dead, the final season of Fear will be broken into two halves, with six episodes in May/June, then the…

Rick and Michonne’s son had a bigger part to play in another ending.Image: AMCDid you hear? The Walking Dead, one of our generation’sdefining television shows, ended this past weekend. Besides wrapping up as many core stories as it could, the big reveal was something our own Rob Bricken described as “all that anyone still watching the show wanted to see.” However, the ending you saw was not always a certainty. As a result, an alternate, more comic book-inspired ending was filmed, before being cut in favor of what aired…