The show premieres one week after the season ten finale of The Walking Dead:
Some new photos from the show:
And here's the latest(?) trailer for anyone who hasn't seen it, though it's a few months old:
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond premieres April 12 on AMC, will be a two-season series (Update: now airing October 4)
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The show premieres one week after the season ten finale of The Walking Dead:
Some new photos from the show:
And here's the latest(?) trailer for anyone who hasn't seen it, though it's a few months old:
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Amazon Prime in the UK, so all 3 WD shows (new episodes) are on 3 different services that all require separate subscriptions.😂 What a mess.
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Huh. That's surprising, but also refreshing. Wonder if they'll stick to it.
The books are done. There's not gonna be a resolution to the apocalypse. The books were fucking amazing tho! Wayyy better than what anything they put on TV has done. AMC was the wrong network to go with.
I will check out an episode or two with my friends, of course. Out of respect to Kirkman.
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They confirmed a few months ago that there will be crossovers with other areas of AMC's TWD universe in World Beyond, and the community that this show's characters are from is part of the CRM trio of communities that took Rick and Jadis/Anne in the main show, so that's pretty much a guarantee.
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The helicopter group that abducted Rick is connected to this series, yeah.
I don't think that has been on the table since S1 of Walking Dead.
I mean, c'mon. Money-wise? Yeah, obv.
There's no doubt it does any of the source-work justice, tho, and I'm a huge TWD fan but I just couldn't take how gimped everything was and checked out around a year ago.
I get it's popular, extremely so in fact, yet HBO or even Showtime would've objectively been the better call considering the source material. HBO passed, so it's on them. Not sure about Showtime.
Anyway, I'll still check this out.
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Will probably check it out. Maybe I'll stick around, maybe I won't. Dropped off both TWD shows already. At least there is a clear end in sight for this series.
The show was never about finding a resolution. The brief story arc regarding finding a resolution with Eugene sold home the fact that ultimately there is no end to the apocalypse.
The show was never about finding a resolution. The brief story arc regarding finding a resolution with Eugene sold home the fact that ultimately there is no end to the apocalypse.
FTWD actually had a soft-reboot. Random as fuck, I know. It worked some and it didn't just a bit less so. I enjoyed it tho.
The budget hampering the series is a dumb narrative the internet latched onto even though it doesn't hold any water.
More swearing, which is all that would have changed w/r/t source material had the show been on premium cable, does not an objectively better show make.
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The first one could hit theaters around that time, yeah. Andrew Lincoln has been growing his Rick beard again lately, and apparently he's been seen with Pollyanna McIntosh lately, so it seems that they may be ramping up towards filming right now. If that's the case, a summer 2021 release sounds about right to me.
What is a "CW cast?" Is it just seeing young actors and just hating them automatically?
Except it literally isn't because they're working towards a pre defined ending...
More like being cynical about the tone and overall direction in that regard (even the logo sequence carries that typical teen drama vibe), "hating them" is entirely too strong an assessment. Being dismissive of this whole thing, yes, hating anyone, no.
Which would still be the whole world is screwed and the only thing that will ever continue to define the setting even after their story concludes is an endless cycle of temporary peace eventually shattered by marauding bands of sociopaths before it all starts anew.
Never mentioned the budget at all. I generally agree with most of their budgetary decisions, of course things could be spruced up here and there but that's neither...here nor there (lol) I think it's fine and they do a great job at AMC with what they're working with, honestly. I never really sided with that narrative but I did understand why people wanted things more grand, different landscapes, etc. That's never what was really portrayed much in the book anyhow.
And you're selling the books extremely short if you're gonna lump everything I said into merely 'more swearing'. C'mon now.
Edit* Ohh, I think you misunderstood what I meant by 'money-wise'. I meant, it makes AMC a shitton of money!
Not necessarily. Have you read the final arc of the comics?
It was the "gimped" part, actually. I don't see how anything was gimped.
You said premium cable would have been better considering the source material, but the only thing that AMC couldn't do justice to w/r/t the source material was the pervasive swearing. Everything else could easily have been done, the writers just chose not to (like that scene between Michonne and the Governor).
Haven't read the comics, only vaguely familiar with differences between it and the main show.
I'm not interested in watching but it's nice to know that they already know where they want to story to go so it doesnt overstay its welcome.
Gotcha. Yeah, gimped as in nerf'd. To be honest, I guess I could ascribe at least some of my qualms to the writing staff. But it's not just them. To me, it's all quite the mess in comparison with the books. Don't get me wrong, the show did some things arguably better than the books (Terminus). But my point is, on the whole, a ton of stuff was left out, changed, pacing issues, soft-peddling dark scenarios... well the list goes on for me. To sum up how I feel I would just simply say - The show is no where near gritty enough, which is a huge blow to the source material. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here which I'm fine with.
Just what TWD needed...angsty teen drama. I stopped reading the comic after the time skip and stopped watching the series well before that for being absolute trash. I don't see this as being something that gets me back into zombies. This somehow looks even worse than the original series.
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Yeah, I'm really glad about that. The only thing that may be concerning is knowing that there will be crossovers and tie-ins with the other two shows and the movie, but as long as it's handled well and doesn't feel out-of-place, I don't think it'll be that bad. The news about it being two seasons long has made me more excited for it.
Hahahahaha 2 seasons? This is the Network that is planning on milking their main Walking Dead series for like 30 seasons.
Believe it when I see it.
Imagine if Walking Dead had had a defined beginning, middle and end arced out over 5 or 6 seasons. Would have been a great show and written, directed etc so much more coherently.
Believe it when I see it.
Imagine if Walking Dead had had a defined beginning, middle and end arced out over 5 or 6 seasons. Would have been a great show and written, directed etc so much more coherently.
Well, they eventually do some very different things towards the end that might surprise you!
Right, but that has nothing to do with AMC - the only thing premium cable can/would do that basic cable can't/won't is like pervasive swearing and nudity. Anything else, especially violence and gore, is acceptable. Critics have been complaining that the show is unbearably dark and gritty for years now, and the S7 premiere in particular sparked a wave of viewer complaints, so I'm not sure more grit is what the show needed. But fair enough - agree to disagree :3
The Walking Dead was never going to be that.
Each season will be ten episodes long
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Apparently both seasons will be ten-episodes-long, so the full series will be a total of twenty episodes. (This news came around the time I posted this thread, but I wasn't aware of it until now.)
Also, a quote from AMC's Sarah Barnett:
Finally, an interesting tidbit that I hear is from a recent AMC survey:
Also, a quote from AMC's Sarah Barnett:
So expect more non-traditional things for TWD in the future.
Finally, an interesting tidbit that I hear is from a recent AMC survey:
The show's group leaves their community in search of the father of the two main characters. He's apparently described as "the one man who could save the world". Wonder what that's about. Maybe just someone who is key to the CRM?
The premiere just got pushed back to "later this year"
tvline.com
Walking Dead Spinoff World Beyond Postponed; New Premiere Date TBD
AMC is moving back the series premiere of its upcoming spinoff 'The Walking Dead: World Beyond' due to the coronavirus outbreak.
tvline.com
Premiere delayed to "later this year"
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Well, shit.The premiere just got pushed back to "later this year"
Walking Dead Spinoff World Beyond Postponed; New Premiere Date TBD
AMC is moving back the series premiere of its upcoming spinoff 'The Walking Dead: World Beyond' due to the coronavirus outbreak.
I guess I get it. With everything that's going on, premiering a new zombie/virus-focused TV show may not be a good idea, even if it's part of an existing property. Not only will some people not want to watch it, but those who do will probably have a lot going on that could prevent them from seeing it.
I'm sad because I'm looking forward to it, but I get that it might be a wise business choice to delay it.
Also, we may want to prepare for the news that Fear season six and TWD season eleven are going to be pushed back as well. They've already hit snags with production delays, and things are only going to get worse from here with regards to the pandemic.
I don't think they're delaying because it's a too timely or whatever - rather, they're delaying it because every show that's currently in production is going on a months long hiatus and won't be able to hit their previously targeted release dates. Fear S6 won't hit in late June/early July as expected, for instance. Rather than rolling right into World Beyond and then having a month+ of nothing airing on Sundays after it ends, AMC is trying to space everything out a little more so there's not all these huge gaps in their schedule.
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Expected I suppose.
They haven't technically delayed the season premiere of Fear yet, have they? I was surprised when they said it's still coming this summer after the last episode of TWD. There's no way it isn't getting delayed, they haven't been able to film for weeks.