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 Fans of The Walking Dead are fully aware
of the film that will tell what happened to Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) who
left the main show in the early part of season nine on a helicopter. The Dead
franchise is in the hands of former show runner Scott M. Gimple, who told
Entertainment Weekly about the film and how it will connect with the main show:
“We are going to continue to tell Rick’s story, and we are going to discover so
much of the world through that story. Rick will be challenged in different ways
that, in some ways, everything that he’s been through has sort of prepared him
for. It’s a much larger world than one that he had been operating in, and that
was challenging in and of itself. Now things are heightened, and just as we’re
going to the movies – and it is the movies proper, suitably widescreen – we’re
going to be filling that screen with a brand new world.” The film doesn’t have a
finished script so the director’s job is open and according to Gimple, “The
scale is bigger and the budget is bigger, and it’s The Walking Dead, but
heightened, both in the narrative themes, but also in just what we see onscreen.
I say heightened, but I should also say it’s also very different. It’s not going
to be the exact same thing we saw on television, just larger. We are going in
some wild new directions.” Now when the film was announced we thought it was
going to be on TV but now the film will be seen in theaters so the budget is
much larger. Gimple is also behind a plan to tell different stories within the
franchise that will use characters long since gone from the series. This plan
will involve single TV films, limited series and an event series with a massive
scale. And in related Dead news the spin-off The Walking Dead: World Beyond
series will only run two seasons. The show will follow the first generation of
survivors born into the zombie apocalypse and it has a 10-episode run.
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