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The Next “Walking Dead” Character to Join “Fear the Walking Dead” is Reportedly Dwight
Last year, Lennie James’ character Morgan Jones made the leap from “The Walking Dead” to spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead,“ and it looks like Austin Amelio‘s Dwight is next!
ComicBook.com reports this morning that Dwight, who was exiled from Alexandria by Daryl in Season 8 of “The Walking Dead,” will join “Fear” during its fifth season.
Season 5 of the spinoff series will kick off later this year.
UPDATE: This news has now been officially confirmed!
It’s true: @austin_amelio is officially joining #FearTWD Season 5 as Dwight! Details: https://t.co/TfOLn8DlTo pic.twitter.com/dlXeSbGGfh
— The Walking Dead (@TheWalkingDead) January 4, 2019
The third trailer for creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards”, based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, laments how hard kids had it in 1981.
To be fair, there’s a serial killer on the loose and a lot of backstabbing in the trailer below.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star.
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Rigney will portray Ellis, and Campbell will play Thom. Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.