Last September AMC announced that they were working on a "spinoff" of the popular show "The Walking Dead." Since that announcement there has been very little information about the new zombie show but finally there's been an update.
AMC is definitely going ahead with the series and said that Dave Erickson has signed on to oversee development, co-write and executive produce, Uproxx reports.
Erickson was a producer and writer on AMC's "Low Winter Sun" and has also written several episodes of the hugely popular "Sons of Anarchy." According to Uproxx, he will be working with Robert Kirkman (who created the comic series "The Walking Dead" is based on) and producer Gale Anne Hurd on the new show.
The project has not been given a name yet and is said to air in 2015. A plot for the show hasn't even been revealed but Kirkman has previously said that technically it won't be a spinoff because it won't feature Rick Grimes, Michonne or any of the other "TWD" characters.
So far, it seems like it will be an entirely separate show but will still center on a zombie outbreak. AMC has been calling the show "a companion series" instead of spinoff. Kirkman explained the difference at the Amazing Arizona Comic Con, Comicbook.com reports.
"I'm not scared of that word [spinoff], but it's technically not a spinoff, because we're not spinning off any of the characters," Kirkman said. "That's what that term means."
"So I can say that it will be another group of characters, surviving in another part of the world," he continued. "And it's not going to use any of the core cast from our show. The show will continue uninterrupted, as if the other show doesn't exist. But the other show will kind of be its own entity."
There were rumors that the new AMC show would serve as a sort of prequel and lead up to the zombie outbreak.
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