The Walking Dead universe is getting even bigger.Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays Negan, are starring in a New York City-set spinoff series that will air on AMC next year.Isle of the Dead will consist of six episodes and will be showrun by Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons and has an overall deal with AMC Studios.It comes as The Walking Dead is wrapping up its 11th and final season and is the latest spinoff series for the zombie franchise.The move marks quite the turnaround for Cohan, who first starred in The Walking Dead as a recurring character in season two.
Tense contract negotiations at the end of season eight led her to only appearing in a handful of episodes of season nine and leaving the series in 2018.
She then returned in the season 10 finale and subsequent eleventh and final season.Dean Morgan’s Negan joined The Walking Dead in season six and killed Maggie’s husband Glenn.
The two characters are currently teamed up in season 11 despite this as they head for Meridian.Cohan and Dean Morgan have previously teamed up in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where they played Batman’s parents.Isle of the Dead sees Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland.
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