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Lauren Cohan Comments On the Possibility of Maggie Returning to “The Walking Dead”
The first half of the ninth season of “The Walking Dead” marked the departure of Andrew Lincoln and his Rick Grimes, and it was also the end of the road for Lauren Cohan‘s Maggie. Yes, Rick’s final episode was Maggie’s final episode, but AMC hardly even made that clear. The reason? Unlike Lincoln’s deal, Cohan’s has been left open for a future return to the show.
At the TCA’s winter press tour this week (via Deadline), Cohan herself commented on the rumors that she’ll eventually be returning to the hit zombie series.
“There may have been some conversations but everything is so early days ambiguous,” Cohan said during the press tour. “We’ll have to see what happens.”
As we learned last year, AMC is also working on a series of made-for-TV movies set in “The Walking Dead” universe, so even if Maggie doesn’t return to the show, she could always get her own movie. As for why Cohan left, that’s because she took a leading role on ABC’s “Whiskey Cavalier,” a brand new series that’s set to premiere later this month, on February 24.
AMC programming president David Madden had said last year, “I would hope it’s not the last you’ll see of her for the show. We definitely feel there is more of Maggie’s story to tell. We did not, as you have seen, kill her off in 905. We established that she is out there somewhere. And that’s something we would like to pay off by having her return, if her schedule permits.”
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is reteaming with Starz on a TV series adaptation of supernatural crime graphic novel Bone Parish, Deadline reports.
Diane Ademu-John (Dune: Prophecy) and Declan de Barra (The Witcher: Blood Origin) will co-showrun the project and executive produce.
The show’s logline reads: “In the dark underworld of New Orleans, the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past. But as demand surges, rival factions, deadly secrets, and supernatural forces close in, pulling them deeper into a violent and inescapable nightmare of crime, horror, and family legacy.”
The graphic novel by writer Cullen Bunn (The Empty Man) and artist Jonas Scharf was published by BOOM! Studios; the publisher’s Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer will executive produce.
“I’ve always been drawn to stories that break the mold, and Bone Parish does exactly that. It takes crime, family, and power, and mixes it with something dark and supernatural, in a way that feels fresh. Exploring what happens when the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead, this story has incredible depth, and we’re building a series that’s going to keep audiences locked in from the first episode,” Jackson said in a statement.
“We love going on new journeys with Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson, and this one is unlike anything we’ve done before: a world steeped in horror and the supernatural, but still grounded in the family and crime storytelling our audience can’t get enough of. It’s a wild, bold swing, and exactly the kind of risk we want to be taking,” said Kathryn Busby, President, Original Programming at Starz.
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