The first authentic zombie TV series in history, "The Walking Dead", lost the core character "Rick" and was taken over by "Crossbow Brother", but AMC did not rest on this, and the official preparation was to expand the series, in addition to the previously announced "Walking Dead" live-action movie as a sequel to the American drama. Let's take a look!
Crossbowman, Rick
Today, a novel, The Walking Dead: Typhoon, is announced again, which is set in China and will lay the foundation for the "Walking Dead" universe series and future film and television works to join China.
Details were released in The Hollywood Reporter, a novel that focuses on a brother gang battling a large number of zombies in the world's most populous country and is scheduled for release in 2020. In fact, long ago, "The Walking Dead" expanded its overseas territory through the comic strip "Alien", which added a Spanish Barcelona background to the series.
It is reported that the novel is published by Skybound, the copyright holder of "The Walking Dead", this novel will be the same as the "Walking Dead" series of TV series, movies, comics, games, no matter how the creator describes, will be added as a series setting to the entire "Walking Dead" universe background.
Sean Mackiewicz, a big man at Skybound, said, "After 15 years of accumulation, we will finally tell readers the answer, which is what happened in other countries and regions of the world besides the United States." This extended work was written by Wesley Chu, a Chinese-American writer of the famous novels The Lives of Tao and Time Salvager. ”
The Walking Dead game expands on a large number of characters
Author of The Walking Dead
In addition to the novel, there are a number of works that expand the series of settings, such as Rick's television movies as the protagonist, and works that use multiple forms of entertainment to construct countries and regions outside the United States.
These will be released in the next few years, including film and television, novels, comics, games and all other forms of entertainment, in addition to linking popular characters such as Rick and Crossbowman, but also creating new characters.
Jesus (out of the closet)
As for what zombies in other countries and regions outside the United States look like and how capable they are, Sean Mackiewicz said that the overall situation is the same, but because of the climate of each country and region and other factors, there will be some differences, and more importantly, the situation in these countries and regions will be uniformly affected by each other.
Although there are geographical differences, the Chinese zombies in The Walking Dead are by no means like this
In addition, these expanded works will also be developed in a complementary way, such as "The Walking Dead: Typhoon", a novel with Chinese background, which will be filled with film and television works, games, and comics in the later stage.
Chandler Riggs played Carl for eight years, growing from a young teenager to a gritty youth
Chandler Riggs, who played Carl for eight years, cut his hair handsomely after quitting, and joked: "It turns out that short hair feels so cool to be blown by the wind."
In particular, Sean Mackiewicz mentioned that The number of zombies in China, the overwhelming sense of horror, combined with the shocking scene of crossing the Great Wall, will be a visual spectacle.
With the expansion of the "Walking Dead" series, the special effects production and makeup production of the crew are more powerful, and these AMC special effects producers also create props and models for other works, such as "Missionary", and as the "Walking Dead" series expands to countries and regions around the world, the quality of these productions will be upgraded again.
The crossbowman touches his own "silicone" model
The ninth season of "The Walking Dead" is halfway through, the second half of the season is scheduled to air next year, Joe Bornser plays Shaun cameo, Rick and some classic characters will say goodbye to the show, but as Rick's actor Andrew Lincoln will be the producer of the series, stay tuned.