'The Walking Dead' News: AMC Announces Two-Season Spin-Off Series
"The Walking Dead" on AMC is getting a spin-off series of its own in late summer, providing fans of the show with more zombie action in between seasons.
AMC just announced it will soon be premiering a spin-off series for "The Walking Dead" with its pilot to be launched by late summer of this year, followed by two seasons of the new show to be set in Los Angeles featuring a new cast of characters.
The spin-off, codenamed "Cobalt," is yet untitled but is frequently referred to as "Fear the Walking Dead."
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Conceptualized as a companion series for the popular zombie apocalypse drama on AMC, production began in early 2015 and ended the following month.
"From the beginning of The Walking Dead on AMC, we've been asked questions about what was going on in other parts of the zombie apocalypse, and what it looked like as the world really did 'turn,'" Charlie Collier, AMC President, said in a statement.
The spin-off will introduce "Body of Proof" and "Columbiana" New Zealand actor, Cliff Curtis, who takes the lead role of Sean Cabrera. It will also feature "Gone Girl's" Kim Dickens as Nancy Tomkins, British actor Frank Dillane, who played Tom Riddle in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" as Nick Tomkins, and Australian "Into the Storm" actress Alycia Debnam-Carey as Ashley Tomkins.
The plot follows a divorced male teacher played by Curtis, a guidance counselor, Dickens, and her two children, Dillane and Debnam-Carey. The storyline for the new show has yet to be revealed.
Season One of the new show will feature six 60-minute episodes to provide fans of the original apocalypse drama more zombie fare in between "The Walking Dead" seasons, with Season 2 set to follow in 2016.
The companion series was written by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson and directed by Adam Davidson.
