There’s a whole lot going on in the world of “The Walking Dead” right about now, with the main series and spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead” paving the way for another spinoff later this year (“The Walking Dead: World Beyond”) as well as big screen movies. And it sounds like AMC’s zombie-infested universe is hardly planning on slowing down any time soon.
Speaking with EW this week, “Walking Dead” architect Scott M. Gimple teased a “limited event series” approach to expanding upon different elements within the show’s universe.
“We’re working on a big push of something I was working on originally and then I got much more focused on the shows in my first year on this job and developing World Beyond and getting the movie going. We really do want to come out with different TV formats, meaning shorter things, and then some event series, limited event series,” Gimple told the site.
He continued, “I’m trying to get together a number of different things that we can show at different times during the year, and this focuses on characters we miss and we lost. It focuses on aspects of that new mythology. It focuses on stories that occur in our universe and have nothing to do with anything. Nothing to do with the shows or the movies, that are just these little zombie tales that happen in our world with our rules and our timeline but are just really great zombie stories, really great stories of the end of the world. I’ve been working on that with a variety of people, and that’s actually proving to be super fun and interesting.”
Gimple added, “It’s awesome to be able to play with characters that we’ve lost, and it’s awesome to fill in some of the blanks.”
We have no idea when to expect any of this “shorter” content or exactly what form any of it will be taking, but it certainly sounds like the sky’s the limit within this universe.