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AMC’s The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, featuring the return of beloved characters Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) from the original series, has released a new teaser.
The series is the next installment in the popular The Walking Dead series and will premiere on February 25, 2024 on both AMC and AMC+. Lincoln and Gurira serve as executive producers along with showrunner Scott M. Gimple, Denise Huth and Brian Bockrath.
“’The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’ presents an epic love story between two characters changed by a changed world. Kept separated by distance. By an unstoppable force. By the ghosts of who they were. “Rick and Michonne are thrown into an alternate world based on a war against the dead… and ultimately a war against the living,” the show’s description reads. “Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation they have never known before? Are they enemies? Lover? The victims? Winner? Are they even still alive without each other – or will they discover that they too are the Walking Dead?”
Lincoln left The Walking Dead in 2018 after nearly a decade starring as protagonist and former cop Rick Grimes, who later married the tough, katana-wielding Michonne. The filming schedule in Georgia, he said, made it difficult for him to concentrate on spending time with his family in England.
“I have two small children and I live in a different country, and as they get older they become less manageable,” Lincoln previously told EW Radio. “It was so easy. It was time for me to come home.”
Lincoln’s character disappeared during Season 9 – during which he was presumed dead – while Gurira’s character disappeared during Season 10. Both later made cameo appearances in the 2022 season finale, hinting at their upcoming spin-off. In the new trailer, Lincoln addresses his absence from “The Walking Dead” universe.
“People ask, ‘Where did you go?'” Lincoln acknowledges. “Our goal is to find answers.”
“It’s a really exciting story to tell,” says Gurira. “These two people are so powerful and together it’s crazy. This is crazy love.”
Check out the teaser below.