'There Are Many More Continents to Visit' — The Walking Dead Might Keep Going Another 15 Years as Its Characters Work Their Way Across the Globe

If there’s 1 amusement successful the modern epoch that has endured, it’s The Walking Dead. The bid has had galore seasons and aggregate spinoffs implicit the years — and it appears writer and enforcement shaper Scott Gimple feels there’s a batch much beingness near successful the greater Walking Dead Universe.

“It’s rather imaginable we could spot this radical up present 15 years from now,” helium said of the instauration of the Daryl Dixon spinoff series, which follows Norman Reedus’ iconic quality to France, during a caller day sheet astatine Mipcom successful Cannes reported connected by Variety.

“There are galore much continents to visit. It’s astir however [the characters] germinate implicit time. It’s truly breathtaking to spot however acold we tin instrumentality this,” helium explained, noting that changing up the locale opens up a treasure trove of possibilities for the writers to explore. “In a batch of ways, [the locations] springiness the communicative to us.”

Gimple adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic to comparison the immense storytelling prospects the mounting offers to the bid to the lore and worldbuilding indispensable for comic publication adaptations similar our favourite Marvel and DC films. “It was each 1 story. It went successful each sorts of antithetic directions,” helium explained during the panel. “Even with characters who person done truthful galore things, we tin enactment them successful antithetic worlds wherever they person antithetic challenges and germinate them done these challenges.”

Needless to say, it would beryllium chill to spot the communicative grow to much countries and cultures. Interestingly enough, due to the fact that containment is specified a prevalent taxable successful zombie media, astir stories extremity up practicing it wrong their communicative successful this mode without adjacent realizing it. In fact, that’s 1 of the astir absorbing elements of 2002’s zombie classical 28 Days Later: the thought that the full United Kingdom is chopped disconnected from the greater satellite due to the fact that of the outbreak. So this conception turns that classical model connected its ear, and it would beryllium amusive to spot the squad down The Walking Dead marque bully connected the concept.

The Walking Dead premiered successful 2010 and ran for 11 seasons earlier concluding its tally successful 2022 aft 177 episodes. It spawned six spinoff series, including The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which kicked disconnected successful 2023 and was renewed for a 4th and last play to premiere sometime adjacent year.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.