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AMC Teases Extra “The Walking Dead” 100th Episode Footage On New VR App!
AMC announced today that it has launched a new, immersive virtual reality app, AMC VR, which allows users to step into the worlds of AMC’s groundbreaking original series like “The Walking Dead,” “Into the Badlands” and more. The AMC VR app, which is available now for iOS, Android, Gear VR and Google Daydream, allows users to experience virtual scenarios such as becoming a walker from “The Walking Dead” or getting Hong Kong-style martial arts training from the “Into the Badlands” Fight Camp. Users will also be able to watch the latest AMC trailers and behind-the-scenes video in the AMC VR app’s screening room.
Additionally, timed to “The Walking Dead’s” 100th episode, AMC VR will debut an extended 360-degree bonus scene from the Season 8 premiere starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Seth Gilliam.
Directed by series executive producer and special effects makeup supervisor Greg Nicotero, co-directed by Kevin Cornish and produced by Moth + Flame, the extended scene will be available on the AMC VR app following the conclusion of the Season 8 premiere airing Sunday, October 22nd at 9pm ET on AMC.
The AMC VR app is available on both iOS and Android devices. Download links:
- iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amc-vr/id1295952127
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amc.vr
- Gear VR: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/gear-vr/1372218952904227/
- Google Daydream: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amc.daydream
Other content available on AMC VR includes:
“The Walking Dead” (Directed by Greg Nicotero)
- “Attacked Pt. 1: Trapped” – You’re trapped in an abandoned car. Can you last until help arrives?
- “Attacked Pt. 2: Surrounded” – The walkers are closing in now, and time is running out.
- “Attacked Pt. 3: Devoured” – Unfortunately, not everyone makes it out alive in this world.
- “Attacked Pt. 4: Herd” – You’re the walking dead. Join the herd.
“Into the Badlands”
- Virtual Reality Fight Camp: Immerse yourself in training camp as series stars Daniel Wu, Aramis Knight and Ally Ioannides watch themselves practice a choreographed fight.
- Tilda on the Wire: Daniel Wu (Sunny) teaches Ally Ioannides (Tilda) how to use a dead body to her advantage for a Season 2 scene of “Into the Badlands.”
Screening Room
- “The Walking Dead” Season 8 Trailer
- Wrapping Up “Into the Badlands” Season 2
- Segment from “Ride With Norman Reedus”
Upcoming additions to the app include all-new experiences for “The Walking Dead,” “Into the Badlands,” AMC’s new original series “The Terror” and more.
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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