We learned back in 2018, right after the character exited AMC’s TV series, that Andrew Lincoln would be reprising the role of Rick Grimes in a planned trilogy of “The Walking Dead” feature films for the big screen, with the first movie set to tell the story of where Rick was taken when we last saw him on the show, exploring a new corner of the zombie apocalypse.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Scott Gimple provides a bit of an update on that initial “Walking Dead” movie and promises that it’s going to be quite unlike the TV series.
“The scale is bigger and the budget is bigger, and it’s The Walking Dead, but heightened, both in the narrative themes, but also in just what we see onscreen,” Gimple explains. “I say heightened, but I should also say it’s also very different. It’s not going to be the exact same thing we saw on television, just larger. We are going in some wild new directions.”
He continues, “We really want to deliver [the fans] something special, something worth their trip to the movies. We’re trying to be very deliberate and deliver something new.”
Gimple told the site that the script is currently being refined, and a director has not yet been chosen. He teases, “We’re going to be filling that screen with a brand new world.”
