AMC gave a double dose of fearful updates at MarvelCon at this time: The cable community revealed the premiere date for The Walking Dead: Dead City and the official trailer for Fear the Walking Dead’s eighth and remaining season.
The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere Sunday, June 18, at 10/9c on AMC and AMC+, with subsequent episodes airing at 9/8c.
The latest spinoff of The Walking Dead follows the favored characters Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they journey right into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, way back minimize off from the mainland, as AMC explains. “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,” the community provides.
Before that premiere, nonetheless, comes the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead’s eighth and remaining season on Sunday, May 14, at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.
Season 8 picks up after Season 7 dashed Morgan’s (Lennie James) and Madison’s (Kim Dickens) hopes of rescuing Mo from PADRE.
“Now, Morgan, Madison, and the others they brought to the island are living under PADRE’s cynical rule,” AMC explains. “With our characters demoralized and dejected, the task of reigniting belief in a better world rests with the person Morgan and Madison set out to rescue in the first place — Morgan’s daughter, Mo.”
Co-showrunner Ian Goldberg additionally revealed throughout Fear the Walking Dead’s MarvelCon panel that Season 8 will embody a seven-year time bounce.
Still to return within the Walking Dead universe is The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, with Norman Reedus reprising his function because the titular TWD character in a sequence slated to premiere this yr, and the untitled Rick and Michonne sequence, starring TWD vets Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira.
The Walking Dead: Dead City, Series Premiere, Sunday, June 18, 10/9c, AMC and AMC+
Fear the Walking Dead, Final Season Premiere, Sunday, May 14, 9/8c, AMC and AMC+