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Pandemic Giving “The Walking Dead” Team More Time to Get Rick Grimes Movie Right, Says Robert Kirkman
It’s admittedly not much of an update but “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman did touch briefly upon the upcoming Rick Grimes-centric movie over the weekend.
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” 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.
At a virtual Skybound panel over the weekend, Kirkman suggested that the pandemic-fueled delays may very well end up being a real good thing for those upcoming movies.
“There’s tons of stuff going on behind the scenes. I don’t want anyone to think that we’re just kind of waiting around for this pandemic to end,” Kirkman said over the weekend.
He continued, “I would say that, if anything, the pandemic is going to make a lot of movies better. I think the Rick Grimes movie chief among them, just because we’re getting a lot more time to cook this thing and make sure it’s perfect.”
The ongoing pandemic has of course also impacted “The Walking Dead” TV series, which has yet to air its Season 10 finale. We expect to learn that new airdate out of SDCC this week.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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