It’s not Comic-Con without “The Walking Dead,” which will be ending with an expanded two-year eleventh season that will span 24 episodes, bringing the long-running AMC series to an end sometime in 2022. Out of Comic-Con@Home tonight, we’ve got a new trailer.
The Comic-Con trailer is packed with 3-minutes of footage from the new season, making it clear that one of the big focal points going forward will be the struggle between Negan and a returning Maggie, who hasn’t quite allowed Negan to move on from his brutal past the way some of the other characters have. After all, it was Negan who killed her husband Glenn, bashing in his brains in the show’s most unforgettably horrifying moment to date. Brand new threats are also on the horizon, with our heroes protecting their home from the Commonwealth.
Some very horror-heavy sequences are also teased for Season 11, which is always nice to see from a show that sometimes is more drama than horror. Find the Comic-Con trailer below!
The Final Season will begin on Sunday, August 22 at 9pm ET/8c on AMC with all 11A episodes airing one week early on AMC+, beginning August 15.
Season 11 will air in three 8-episode parts, with 11B and 11C airing in 2022.
The beginning of the end starts August 22nd or stream it early with @AMCPlus starting on August 15th. pic.twitter.com/OaE8LrmE0C
— The Walking Dead on AMC (@WalkingDead_AMC) July 24, 2021
Laila Robins and Josh Hamilton join the previously announced Margot Bingham and Michael James Shaw as new Season 11 series regulars, AMC also announced today.
Here’s the full plot synopsis for the show’s epic final season…
“Previously on The Walking Dead, our survivors confronted past demons and combated new threats, with friendships and relationships suffering from the mounting collateral damage that is the apocalypse. Alexandria is severely compromised, left a former shell of the home it once was from the carnage and devastation left behind by the Whisperers.
“Now all who live in Alexandria struggle to refortify it and feed its increasing number of residents, which include the survivors from the fall of the Kingdom and the burning of Hilltop; along with Maggie and her new group, the Wardens. Alexandria has more people than it can manage to feed and protect. Their situation is dire as tensions heat up over past events and self-preservation rises to the surface within the ravaged walls.
“They must secure more food while they attempt to restore Alexandria before it collapses like countless other communities they have come across throughout the years. But where and how? More haggard and hungrier than ever before, they must dig deeper to find the effort and strength to safeguard the lives of their children, even if it means losing their own.
“Meanwhile, unbeknownst to those at Alexandria, Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess are still being held captive by mysterious soldiers who are members of a larger and unforthcoming group.”
Additionally, we learned last year that a Daryl/Carol (starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride) spinoff series is in the works for 2023 premiere, alongside a “Tales of the Walking Dead” spinoff series, billed as “an episodic anthology with individual episodes or arcs of episodes focused on new or existing characters, backstories or other stand-alone experiences.”