This week’s Walking Dead universe news (June 10, 2022)

Happy Weekend TWD Family. Once again, this week was full of news within The Walking Dead universe. Sadly, we won’t have a new episode of The Walking Dead or Fear the Walking Dead to look forward to on Sunday.

This week’s biggest news was the announcement of Tales of the Walking Dead’s premiere on AMC on August 14.  AMC+ will release the first two episodes of season 1 on that date, with the remaining four episodes premiering one week early.

This series is a spinoff, but unlike the other TWD spinoffs, the stories will be stand-alone, so each episode features new characters with new tales. The characters will either be brand new to TWD universe or already established. Samantha Morton is the only confirmed character for this season to reprise her role as Alpha, the leader of the Whispers.

This series has some fantastic casting, including Olivia Munn, Jessie T. Usher, Danny Ramirez, Loan Chabanol, Embeth Davidtz, Gage Munroe, Lauren Glazier, Daniella Pineda, Terry Crews (James Sampson), Anthony Edwards  (Kyle Adler), Parker Posey, Poppy Liu  (Amy Zhang), Jillian Bell  (Sandra Dolan), Rachael Markarian  (Jenna), Eric Tiede (Nolan), Matt Medrano (Mauricio Gonzalez), Ari Loeb  (Seventh Man- stunts), Marvin LaVoilette  (Todd), William J. Simmons  (Wendell Sampson), Kevin J. Johnson, Robert Tinsely  Zombie (uncredited) and Sarah Graham (Zombie). (character name in parenthesis, if known)

The Walking Dead news

• Jeffrey Dean Morgan has several new projects coming soon. 
• Daniel Roebuck, who starred in a TWD web series, will play Grandpa Munster in Rob Zombie’s The Munsters film.
• Check out Steven Yeun, Glenn from TWD, in Jordan Peele’s Nope teaser.
• Matt Lintz stars in the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel and attends the red carpet event. Lintz is known for his portrayal of Henry in TWD.
• AMC partners with the AD Council for a STEM campaign to encourage young girls, non-binary youth, and trans youth to engage in STEM careers. They use TWDU as a great example of outside the box use of STEM.
• Zach McGowan stars in Murder at Yellowstone City. He portrayed Justin in season 9 of TWD.
• Fear TWD’s Demetrius Grosse, the LaRoux brothers, has been cast in a series at ABC. 
• Andrew Lincoln and Demetrius Grosse star in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

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