The actor, who officially departed the flagship series Sunday, will reprise his role as Rick Grimes in a trio of big-budget, feature-length movies that will air on the basic cable network as content chief Scott M. Gimple talks with The Hollywood Reporter about his larger plan for the franchise.
[This story contains major spoilers from episode 905, "What Comes After," of AMC's The Walking Dead.]
"There is more story to tell and we'll be telling it."
Those are the words of The Walking Dead chief content officer Scott M. Gimple, who tells The Hollywood Reporter that leading man Andrew Lincoln — following his departure Sunday fromthe flagship series— will reprise his iconic role as Rick Grimes in a series of three big-budget, feature-length TV movies for AMC. Gimple is currently writing the first of the untitled series of telepics, with production set to begin in 2019. Still to be determined is an air date and where the movies will film as Lincoln departed The Walking Dead in order to spend more time with his family in England. The trio of movies are the first of multiple new scripted ventures that will come from Gimple as AMC kicks off its long-term plan to grow its multibillion-dollar franchise.
"The story of Rick will go on in films," Gimple says. "Right now, we're working on three but there's flexibility in that. … Over the next several years, we're going to be doing specials, new series are quite a possibility, high-quality digital content and then some content that defies description at the moment. We're going to dig into the past and see old characters. We're going to introduce new characters and new situations."
Source: 'Walking Dead' Expansion Plans Revealed
This is fucking amazing considering Andrew (Rick) said the reason why he left the TV Show, was so he could spend time with his Family.
Plus the way Rick left the show is a god damn dumpster fire.
Rick survives not only falling off a horse onto debris, piercing him and losing a shit ton of blood, but also being right in front of an explosion when he was destroying the bridge to stop the walker herd from fucking everyone over, somehow falling into the river (which I have no clue how since he wasn't even on the fucking bridge, nor anywhere close to the water and the explosion would have pushed him away from the water even more) and most likely getting walker guts in his open wound as all the zombies fell into the water).
Fuck AMC, everyone watch YMS's videos on the series just to get a picture of how bad they've been for the series
I've been watching the show since the beginning, season 2 was hard going, 3 was alright and since then I've just continued to watch out of habbit. Yesterdays episode had my head in my hands, I can't believe what I just saw. Then I come here and see this news.
What the fuck.
I still have trouble believing this is the same studio that owns Better Call Saul.
I stopped watching when they spent half a series getting to Terminus, only to end the next episode with Terminus on fire and the group wandering somewhere else. I can only assume it's become more drawn out as time's gone on.
I think zombie TV shows are inherently flawed, all you need is a couple of hours to get to know the the main characters and then see them get ripped to shreds.
Z Nation is pretty cool the first 3 seasons. It's currently airing Fridays on SyFy.
I legitimately don’t understand how people keep watching the show, it feels like at some point that they gave the entire production to film students who have never worked on anything.
Scenes are edited in such a way that there’s no way the people making the show have any clue as to how to set up scenes. Then there’s just completely amateur things like missing sound effects or even bothering to make a prop gun fire in post
Being run into the ground by executives is the problem with ever good idea.
im confused as fuck. What happened last episode?
Yeah, I'm the same way. I thoroughly enjoyed the first season, and it has a kickass soundtrack by Bear McCreary (something that matters to me more than it should in terms of TV & Movies), but season 2 was dull as fuck and I quit when it got to the season in the prison. I think YMS explained in those videos that AMC decided to lower the budget for the show and double the number of episodes, so any epic quality it might have had prior was lost. It's honestly incredibly depressing how popular the show remained with that severe drop in quality.
https://youtu.be/TFVETU7FPp0
Not just BCS, The Terror.
The downfall of rick was falling off a horse? This would be as bad as if batman was killed by falling down the stairs.
The show really does live up to its name, doesn't it?
https://youtu.be/UcZzlPGnKdU
That pissed me off, and I couldn't give less of a fuck about this show.
Seasons 7-9 of The Walking Dead have been straight up embarrassing.
Which sucks because that's the point in the comics where the story got really good.
What an absolute master-piece.
What. I haven't seen the last season and I'm only finding out that Rick will be out of the picture. Honestly would have been better to cancel the show than try to work around Rick. I'll stick with the comics thank you, at least they aren't distilled so it can be enjoyed by primary school children.
Oh yeah, The Terror was fucking excellent.
For better of for worse, its Sony Pictures Television that produces and distributes BCS and Breaking Bad.
While I haven't heard any behind the scenes drama with those shows, I'm gonna assume it's better than how AMC has been carte blanche with TWD.
It all really started with that forced cliffhanger. There were a million ways to do it better, one being cutting out after negan says "well, back to it." Then they took fucking 31 episodes beating about the bush and one episode of somewhat flat conflict... Holy FUCK, what a waste of time!
It really all does go back to that cliffhanger, because whatever retarded thought-process that made it happen, made the series essentially self-masturbate for two whole seasons, stalling for a payoff that would never materialize... and THEN fire their potential future lead for getting too old for the role/needing compensation on the same basis as the rest of the adult cast. There's just no soul in that...
this show was irredeemably stupid, by the 3rd or 4th season. I stopped watching but continued watching people on the internet express shock at how stupid and contrived it is every single season yet they keep watching it. Every year this happens, multiple times, yet you all keep watching faithfully. What the fuck
Damn I wanna see whats the fuss about the episode first hand but the video isn't available.
Andrew Lincoln is still a damn fine actor so good for him getting to dump the baggage but I doubt they'll be any good either way
did yms only have a review for season 1? i cant find anything else
Also @Xonax a film takes around 2 months to film compared to a TV series which can require most of the year including publicity tours. This way he gets more time with his family and probably about the same amount of cash. Hell they could probably shoot parts of it in Pinewood so he doesn't have to leave the countru
I know but the guys could have said that his role as Rick was being reduced, or announce the Movies at the same time as his departure.
Right now him saying he was leaving the show to spend more time with his family, then the movies being announced months later, makes it look dumb as fuck.
This show has been going on for so fucking long
I've stopped watching it like 2 seasons ago, and was surprised to find out that they still haven't killed off Negan, but instead killed off the boy and now rick is gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5sk0RUlS4
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