Despite AMC announcing plans for The Walking Dead Spinoff ages ago, we’ve since heard practically zero information about the show.
Until now.
The showrunner on The Walking Dead, Scott M. Gimple, spoke about the spinoff at the recent Saturn Movie Awards and whether there’ll be a crossover between the two shows. What he said is incredibly exciting:
I have little to do with the spinoff… This I do know. It’s set in the world of The Walking Dead but from what I understand, it’s not like Daryl’s cousin or anything… I would never say never [to a crossover between the shows] because if I was a viewer I would say that sounds awesome. But we’re doing our own show. I also think a crossover might be tough because it would take a lot of [license] within the comic story. We’ll see. When we get to all-out war, who knows? We’ll add another faction. It’ll be the Saviors and the Hilltop and the ‘Spin-offers’.
Holy hell!
“Before we get to all-out war…” Not “if” or “in case” but “before”. I suspected that a lot of the comic plotlines would be somehow adapted for the TV show, but this is definitive proof that they’re moving towards the ‘All-Out War’ storyline, which, for anyone who’s read the comic, is both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.