When Does the Walkung Dead Start Again

The Walking Dead spoilers follow.

The Walking Dead is dorsum for its 11th and terminal season (of the main show anyway), and then you can be sure it'southward going to become out all guns blazing.

At the announcement, Scott Gimple, master content officer for The Walking Dead, offered some major teases as to what to expect, and how the world volition proceed to expand beyond Hilltop's walls.

"We have a lot of thrilling story left to tell on TWD, and then this end will be a commencement of more Walking Dead – make new stories and characters, familiar faces and places, new voices, and new mythologies," he said. "This will exist a m finale that will lead to new premieres. Evolution is upon the states. The Walking Dead lives."

Despite an overall subtract in The Walking Dead'southward ratings, the zombie apocalypse is conspicuously far from over – but equally the maiden ship prepared to bow out, at that place's a lot of footing to cover.

Here's everything we know so far.

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The Walking Dead flavour 11c release engagement: When will information technology air?

Season 11 is out now later beingness split into three jam-packed instalments.

The commencement chunk aired in 2021, with the second segment kicking off on Feb 20, 2022.

The third and terminal batch of episodes are even so to be given a release date.

New episodes drop Sunday nights on AMC in the US, before condign available on STAR on Disney+ the following Monday in the UK.

At that place volition be 24 episodes for the season in total.

The Walking Dead season 11c cast: Who'southward in it?

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The concluding flavor features some of the regular faces of Alexandria and Hilltop back in action equally they continue to adjust to this new, zombie-filled way of life.

This includes: Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Rosita Espinosa (Christian Serratos), Father Gabriel Stokes (Seth Gilliam), Magna (Nadia Hilker), Lydia (Cassady McClincy), Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura) and Mercer (Michael James Shaw).

After an extended absence, the group saw the return of Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie.

Cohan described the news of her render as "completely surreal" at New York Comic Con (via The Hollywood Reporter).

"It feels merely like domicile. Information technology feels so emotional. It feels really, really emotional. I experience like this is a very special Comic-Con and a very special family and I'k really happy to be hither."

The Walking Dead season 11c spoilers: What will happen?

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kang said: "11B is going to have a pretty unlike vibe from 11A, which is not unusual for u.s. in a season... there's going to be a really fun thriller vibe to the B block that we've been enjoying writing.

"I don't want to spoil information technology... but there will be another grouping that surprises our people. And we are going to get to know the Commonwealth more deeply with our characters. And there are detail ways that that plays out, and in that location are a number of characters we will run into for the first time."

The official synopsis reads as follows: "Many of our heroes [are] fighting imminent hellfire nether Reaper assault while others battle Mother Nature's torrential wrath in Alexandria. For all, their world is literally crashing downwardly around them.

"Meanwhile, life in the Republic is not as idyllic equally it seems. For some, hope will exist renewed. Others will be pushed past the point of no return. One truth holds tight: Lives hang in the balance with each decision drastically changing their future, their chances of survival and the state of each customs."

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Chatting to TVLine, Kang said: "When we kickoff [the final season], we're rockin' and rollin', we're dorsum to being large and scope-y. There'south going to be a feeling that things are just ripping along for the first block, and so we're going for some unlike tonal things than we're used to on the show, which hopefully will exist fun for the audition."

She added: "As we meet more than one kind of new customs, every story will have its own vibe. So some of them may go into types of genres that haven't been really explored on the show earlier.

"My promise is that it volition experience similar nosotros're still finding things that are new, even in the final season, but also that nosotros're just moving right along."

She chatted more about the second half of season eleven post-obit the mid-season finale in October, and specifically the unresolved tensions between Maggie (Lauren Cohan)and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).

"Nosotros were just actually interested from the start of the season in telling the story of Maggie and Negan, peculiarly considering when yous have 2 people that accept the kind of history that they practise," Kang told Borderline.

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"It just makes for fascinating interactions when you're forced to work with somebody that you don't entirely trust. I just think it gives us similar different story telling opportunities, and I remember that Negan... he's a character that I really personally take enjoyed writing for, and Jeffrey does an amazing job with the character. He's just one of the characters that you've seen in a variety of places along his journeying, merely Maggie has changed, likewise."

There are lots of cliffhangers to be resolved in the terminal 3rd of the terminal season, with Judith and Gracie trapped in a flooding basement and Carol, Aaron and Connie caught out in a storm. And it is not even the ending to season 11A that Kang had planned, thanks to Covid-19 restrictions, every bit she explained to Insider in October.

"We had a whole different kind of episode planned for episode eight, and nosotros had to get really realistic well-nigh what we could really reach in the storyline," she said. "So it's just been a lot of series of decisions like that, which hopefully are relatively invisible to the audience if they don't know backside-the-scenes.

"It's definitely been dissimilar for us. We have to strategize differently. We have to use locations differently to hide our limitations... Information technology is for good reason and and so we simply, we roll with it, you lot know, considering condom is more important."

Kang besides revealed what people should expect in the final episodes of season 11.

"In that location'due south going to exist just some twists and turns and reveals and we always endeavor to keep information technology scary, as well. Hopefully, all of that'south there for everyone equally nosotros keep on building towards an catastrophe."

"What I'll say is, there are characters such every bit Daryl that find themselves in situations that are so dissimilar in some means than ones they've been in before," Kang said.

"So they're trying to navigate them in ways that tin can sometimes exist uncomfortable for their characters, because they experience like they knew how the world worked, or what their place was in their group, and they're having to kind of aggrandize beyond their circle."

"I think in a general sense, that's kind of what a lot of our characters, in different ways, are dealing with. And and so, of class, at that place's scares and all the usual fun stuff that we get to practice in our testify."

Whatever happens, await a major tonal shift in the second half of the season.

"Nosotros did the first ten episodes kind of in one direction, and that involved Maggie's story mostly, and u.s.a. trying to deal with what's going on with that as a group. And then suddenly, nosotros did a one-eighty, and now information technology'south kind of like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory all of a sudden," Norman Reedus said (via ComicBook).

"Nosotros're all doing The Exorcist correct now, all of our heads are spinning in a circle. Yep, we're all Linda Blair correct at present. I mean, things go from a black and white western to a technicolor Willy Wonka motion-picture show like that, and it'south crazy."

"[Daryl is] protecting the kids a lot, to exist honest, and...he'south protecting Maggie a lot," he added. "Maggie's going through a big thing at the beginning of this season, he kind of takes it upon himself to keep an eye on her and be role of that journey."

According to the role player, Daryl'southward story "turns into a larger fight, which turns into something completely different. But I call back he'south taking care of people and he's protecting people, but he'southward too with everybody else kind of protecting [their abode]."

The Walking Dead season 11c trailer: When tin I lookout?

The Walking Dead teaser trailer dropped just ahead of the show's launch, and as can be expected, merely warned usa of some of the tension ahead.

Naturally, while there's ever a zombie hoard or ii to fight through, the true conflict comes from within the groups of survivors themselves, with partition at present more than prominent than ever.

In the Commonwealth, governor Pamela Milton is proving to be quite the formidable forcefulness, where the return to a 'condition quo' before the invasion of walkers being the prime objective... fifty-fifty if that means casting out and shunning those that don't fit in.

There are also some creepy looking enforcer dudes that look an awful lot like stormtroopers in their armour... and seemingly just as rule-constant and cold to humanity.

Maggie more than almost is unwilling to live by this new stringent globe.

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The Walking Dead spinoffs: What's happening?

Earth Beyond and Fear the Walking Dead already exist, and it's also been confirmed that we're getting a Daryl and Carol spinoff and a Rick Grimes movie with Michonne.

"We're going to be telling stories with Michonne again," Gimple told Collider.

"The end of her on the series was, in many means, the start of the story."

"Movies take a little longer and nosotros're playing with it in all sorts of directions," added Gimple. "And then, the pandemic happened, which gave us the opportunity or the necessity to do that.

"We're notwithstanding doing that. Andy [Andrew Lincoln] is super involved. [Creator Robert Kirkman] is super involved. It really is proceeding. It'south but that current circumstances take given us a little extra fourth dimension that nosotros seem to need anyways. We really want to do it correct."

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Plus, Gimple and AMC are working on another anthology spin-off series, Tales of the Walking Dead, which will air side by side year.

"This serial, more than than any other in the Walking Expressionless Universe, runs on new voices, perspectives, and ideas — bringing to life stories unlike any we've told earlier," said Gimple.

eleanor matsuura as yumiko, the walking dead, season 11

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Finally, in March 2022, withal another spin-off was announced – this time Isle of the Dead, focusing on Maggie and Negan.

"It not only adds some other compelling series to this collection, it extends our storytelling around two unforgettable characters fans take grown to love, detest or hate and then honey in Maggie and Negan, brilliantly inhabited by Lauren and Jeffrey," said Dan McDermott, the President of Entertainment and AMC Studios for the AMC Networks.

"It also lets us explore a corner of this universe located on the island of Manhattan, with an iconic skyline that takes on a very different meaning when viewed through the lens of a zombie apocalypse."

The Walking Expressionless airs on AMC in the US. Britain viewers tin can grab upwardly on the bear witness on STAR on Disney+ .