Isle of the Dead is no more as AMC has retitled the upcoming Walking Dead spinoff series.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the series, starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, will now be known as The Walking Dead: Dead City. All other details on the upcoming series remain the same, which will focus on Cohan's Maggie and Morgan's Negan as they travel into "a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror."
AMC announced The Walking Dead: Dead City in March 2022. The first season will run for six episodes, with The Walking Dead writer and co-executive producer Eli Jorné locked in as executive producer and showrunner. The series will presumably pick up after the events of The Walking Dead, which will begin airing its final run of episodes on Oct. 2 with its series finale slated to air on Nov. 20. Dead City is currently filming in New Jersey and is still on track to premiere in 2023 on AMC.
Dead City Stars Hype Walking Dead Spinoff
Cohan and Morgan have both previously teased what fans should expect from The Walking Dead: Dead City, with Morgan exclaiming in June 2022 that the series is "gonna blow your minds. I repeat, BLOW YOUR FUCKING MINDS." Cohan meanwhile stated that the series will reveal "elements of each of their characters that will be new and challenging, and it's going to be awesome" while also promising fans that Maggie and Negan "are very much still not friends."
The Walking Dead: Dead City is one of several spinoffs currently in development that will expand The Walking Dead Universe. The other two are a Daryl Dixon-focused spinoff series starring Norman Reedus and an untitled Rick & Michonne limited series starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira. The latest spinoff Tales of the Walking Dead, an anthology-based series telling standalone stories set in the shared universe, recently began airing its first season on AMC. Fear the Walking Dead has also been renewed for an eighth season while The Walking Dead will wrap up its final episodes later this year. Once the mothership series ends, it will join The Walking Dead: World Beyond as the only Walking Dead series to no longer be developing new episodes.
The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere on AMC in 2023.
Source: Entertainment Weekly