The Walking Dead's New Rick & Michonne Show Is Better Than Movies
Following his long absence from the show, Rick Grimes will finally return to The Walking Dead in a new spin-off show with Michonne. Andrew Lincoln left The Walking Dead during season 9 to spend time with his family, but there has long been speculation that Rick Grimes will return. Originally, there were plans to have a trilogy of Walking Dead movies that focused on Rick Grimes. Andrew Lincoln joined Michonne actress Danai Gurira and Walking Dead executive producer Scott Gimple onstage at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, however, to reveal that Rick's final adventure will be a six-part TV series.
Rick Grimes was written out of The Walking Dead in the first half of season 9 when he blew up Alexandria's bridge to prevent a herd of walkers from swarming the town. Initially, Rick was assumed dead, but he was later found downstream by Jadis, who helped Rick Grimes by signaling a mysterious helicopter to fly the two of them away. Daryl and the rest of Rick Grimes' group have learned to live without him, but they have never quite let go of the hope that he might still be out there, given that they couldn't find his body. Another key departure from the flagship Walking Dead show was Michonne, Rick's partner, who left in season 10 after finding a clue that suggested Rick was alive.
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While a Rick and Michonne reunion story has always been the plan, a TV show is a better delivery method for it than a movie. Following Andrew Lincoln's departure from the series in November 2019, The Walking Dead movies were announced but have been stuck in development hell since then, which is usually not a fantastic sign concerning the quality of a film. The choice to make Rick and Michonne's next chapter a
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