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Plans in Motion for Shorter “The Walking Dead” Event Series’; Dead Characters Coming Back?
There’s a whole lot going on in the world of “The Walking Dead” right about now, with the main series and spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead” paving the way for another spinoff later this year (“The Walking Dead: World Beyond”) as well as big screen movies. And it sounds like AMC’s zombie-infested universe is hardly planning on slowing down any time soon.
Speaking with EW this week, “Walking Dead” architect Scott M. Gimple teased a “limited event series” approach to expanding upon different elements within the show’s universe.
“We’re working on a big push of something I was working on originally and then I got much more focused on the shows in my first year on this job and developing World Beyond and getting the movie going. We really do want to come out with different TV formats, meaning shorter things, and then some event series, limited event series,” Gimple told the site.
He continued, “I’m trying to get together a number of different things that we can show at different times during the year, and this focuses on characters we miss and we lost. It focuses on aspects of that new mythology. It focuses on stories that occur in our universe and have nothing to do with anything. Nothing to do with the shows or the movies, that are just these little zombie tales that happen in our world with our rules and our timeline but are just really great zombie stories, really great stories of the end of the world. I’ve been working on that with a variety of people, and that’s actually proving to be super fun and interesting.”
Gimple added, “It’s awesome to be able to play with characters that we’ve lost, and it’s awesome to fill in some of the blanks.”
We have no idea when to expect any of this “shorter” content or exactly what form any of it will be taking, but it certainly sounds like the sky’s the limit within this universe.
The Ghostbusters franchise returns to the world of animation with brand new Netflix series “Ghostbusters: Night Shift,” and the official logo has been revealed this weekend.
Expect “Ghostbusters: Night Shift” to clock in on Netflix in 2027!
Netflix previews, “Ghostbusters: Night Shift, a series from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation based on the beloved Ghostbusters franchise, will debut exclusively on Netflix in 2027.
“The new series marks the next chapter in the franchise’s ghoul-catching legacy, bringing supernatural comedy and paranormal action back to animation.”
The upcoming animated series from Netflix will be executive produced by Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, Amie Karp, and Dan Aykroyd.
Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman, director of the original Ghostbusters features, and Kenan co-wrote the franchise’s most recent installments, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
“This isn’t the first time the Ghostbusters universe has gone animated,” Netflix reminds in their press release today. “The 1980s and ’90s saw The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters take over the small screen. For now, you can rest assured: If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, a Ghostbuster will be on the job — even if it’s after hours.”
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