'Tales of The Walking Dead': Terry Crews is among the new signings of the next spin-off

Tales of The Walking Dead: Terry Crews is among the new signings of the next spin-off

Tales of The Walking Dead

New characters and old acquaintances will appear in the products derived from the original series

The universe of the walkers will continue to expand beyond the parent series, The Walking Dead, and add more actors to its huge cast list. Since the success of the adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s comics, the entertainment franchise has been an inspiration for the creation of various stories for television, video games, and, soon, it will make a leap to the cinema. Among the future projects are Tales of the Walking Dead, officially announced last year.

Now it is known who will give life to the new characters that will appear alongside old acquaintances. Terry Crews, known for Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the movie Where Are the Blondes?, joined the cast along with Parker Posey, Jillian Bell, Anthony Edwards, and Poppy Liu. 

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“Anthony, Jillian, Terry, Parker, and Poppy are the first wave of singular talent that will further expand The Walking Dead universe into harrowing, hilarious, heartfelt, and horrifying new realms,” said Scott M. Gimple, the former showrunner of the hit show. fiction and now director of content for the expanded universe.

Haifaa al-Mansour (Good Lord Bird), Deborah Kampmeier (Star Trek: Picard), and Tara Nicole Weyr (The Wilds) will direct an episode of the series, while producer Michael Satrazemis (The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead) will direct three episodes. 

Channing Powell will write and showrunner the project, and Gimple will executive produce. Each chapter of Tales of the Walking Dead will last one hour and will feature personalities we already know and the most recent faces added to the universe.

“We have worked hard to create unique, interesting, and unexpected characters for new and returning TWD fans, and I am thrilled that these are the actors who will bring them to life. I can’t wait for you to see the depth, the drama, the terror, and, yes, the humor they bring to the screen,” added Powell.

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When can Tales of the Walking Dead be seen?

In the United States, the spin-off can be seen after the end of the 11th season of The Walking Dead, divided into three parts and about to launch the second this month. That is, the launch will happen sometime this year. 

Additionally, more proposals will allow you to continue enjoying the zombie universe that began in 2010: a film about Rick Grimes (with the return of Andrew Lincoln), derivative fictions about Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride).

Fear The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond are two great stories that were born from the need to tell the facts before and long after the apocalypse that was unleashed on the world. Likewise, there are shorts, web miniseries, among other small productions, which were launched parallel to the broadcast of the original series for more than a decade.

For now, it is not known exactly when Tales of the Walking Dead will arrive, but it will become the third on this list that will attract large audiences to keep alive the television universe that was created from Kirkman’s comics.

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