’The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” Season 2 Is “Entirely Possible” According to AMC Boss

After the hit series The Walking Dead came to a close back in late 2022, fans wondered if they’d ever see their favorite characters again. Luckily, the folks over at AMC heard the cries of audiences everywhere and pushed three spin-offs into production. Following Norman Reedus’ motorcycle-riding, leather-clad Daryl Dixon, one was titled The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, while another followed the unlikely pairing of Lauren Cohan’s Maggie and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan in The Walking Dead: Dead City. While both of these off-shoots have garnered follow-up seasons, the third side project, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, didn’t seem to be that lucky. However, now, the man in charge of it all — Scott M. Gimple — is teasing the possibility that the burning love story between Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira’s Michonne Grimes will be getting a Chapter Two after all.

Although the original idea for The Ones Who Live was to keep it short and sweet, only giving fans a singular season that would track the relationship between Rick and Michonne, Gimple recently revealed the possibility that it may stretch into more, telling The Direct,

"I mean the plan was to keep it limited. Not necessarily never to see those characters again, but to keep it limited. But I always say, you never know.

There's so many... I've been very careful to not say, 'Oh, that'll never happen,' because it does. So you know, there are possibilities. And there's possibilities of all sorts of strange iterations of shows with those characters and with other characters. So you know I think it's entirely possible."

Scott M. Gimple Wants To Always Have a ‘The Walking Dead’ Series On TV

Beyond the stories in Daryl Dixon, Dead City, and possibly The Ones Who Live, Gimple sees big things for the universe, which is adapted from the comic series penned by Robert Kirkman. Recently addressing the press at the Saturn Awards, at which Collider’s Aidan Kelley was in attendance, Gimple said,

“Robert Kirkman, when he initially pitched the comic to Image, it was a zombie movie that would never end. He would always see it in zombie movies and be like, ‘Wait, what happens after that?’ And it was a brilliant idea and then Robert's own brilliance of character and novelty, incredible dialogue, it hooked me as a comic creator and even though I was working on the show when this happened, when he stopped the comic, I was bummed out because I wanted that zombie movie that never ends so we're picking up the torch, and we're trying to do that.”

Stay tuned to Collider for more information about The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live and the other off-shoots to come from the zombie-filled universe.