“The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” is a spin-off sequel series to the megahit “The Walking Dead”.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the series.
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series
- It is created by Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln for AMC
- It is set after the conclusion of the original The Walking Dead series
- With Lincoln, Gurira and Pollyanna McIntosh reprising their roles
- The Ones Who Live is the sixth spin-off
- And overall seventh television series in The Walking Dead franchise.
- The Ones Who Live premiered on February 25, 2024, on AMC and AMC+
- Andrew Lincoln returns as Rick Grimes, a former sheriff’s deputy from King County, Georgia, and the former leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone who was presumed to be dead.
- Danai Gurira returns as Michonne, the katana-wielding warrior, former leader of the Alexandria Safe-Zone and Rick’s wife who left the group to search for him.
- Pollyanna McIntosh stars as Jadis Stokes / Anne, the warrant officer of the CRM who disappeared along with Rick Grimes on the CRM helicopter
- McIntosh also appeared in the spin-off series The Walking Dead: World Beyond’s second season in a main role
- The series was announced in July 2022 by Scott M. Gimple, Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira at San Diego Comic-Con 2022
- Lincoln and Gurira signed on to reprise their respective roles from the television series
- The series will consist of six episodes and is intended to be a limited series
- The series was titled The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne by April 2023
- It was then retitled to The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live in July 2023
- The series was created by Gimple and Gurira, who will also write for the series, with Gimple serving as showrunner
- The series was set up by The Walking Dead’s series finale “Rest in Peace”
- The series finale featured the return of Rick and Michonne
- Principal photography began on February 15, 2023
- It wrapped on May 29, 2023
- Under the working title Summit
- Pollyanna McIntosh was spotted on set filming in New Jersey in March 2023
- Additional filming and ADR would resume during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike due to an agreement between AMC and SAG-AFTRA
- At the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 79% rating
- Based on 19 critics
- The website’s critics consensus is, “A Walking Dead spinoff that balances past and present without skimping on blockbuster scope, The Ones Who Live is a consistent treat for longtime fans”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 59 out of 100
- Based on 10 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
