This Walking Dead article contains spoilers.
Well, the mourning period for Rick Grimes was pretty short. That’s partially due to the fact that our strapping Walking Dead lead didn’t actually die in his final episode. On the contrary, he was whisked away via helicopter to safety and presumably for a new round of adventures.
Now AMC has officially confirmed that we’ll get to see the continuing adventures of Rick Grimes. AMC announced in a press release (literally two minutes after Rick Grimes’ final episode had aired) that Rick and the actor who portrays him, Andrew Lincoln, will be making the jump to film.
Former Walking Dead showrunner and current Walking Dead universe content officer Scott Gimple will write the script for the first film and potentially more. The film series will come from AMC Studios Original Films. Production is set to begin in 2019.
“We have a lot on the horizon – starting with a new epic featuring one of the greatest leading actors in television history and one of the best people I’ve ever met,” Gimple said in a statement. “These films are going to be big evolutions of what we’ve been doing on the show, with the scope and scale of features. We’re starting with the first part of the continuing story of Rick Grimes, and there is much more on the way, featuring yet-unseen worlds of The Walking Dead and faces from the show’s past, as well as new characters we hope to become favourites, told by TWD veterans and emerging voices. We want to break new ground with different, distinct stories, all part of the same world that’s captured our imagination for nearly a decade of theDead.”
AMC had previously announced that it was looking into bringing The Walking Dead universe into a film, though the timing of this is legitimately shocking. Perhaps we should have seen it coming with Rick’s non-death.
More as we get it.