The Walking Dead: Dead City starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan has been renewed for season three. AMC Networks confirmed the renewal and announced Seth Hoffman (The Walking Dead co-executive producer and writer) will be taking over as showrunner for the upcoming season.
“I’m excited to have the chance to dive back into The Walking Dead Universe and work to deliver another dynamic season’s worth of stories to this epic franchise. It’s a true honor to chart out the next chapter for Maggie and Negan’s iconic adventures in Dead City,” stated Hoffman. “Lauren, Jeffrey and Scott [M. Gimple] are incredible creative partners, and I’m thrilled to collaborate with them to bring this story to life.”
Filming is expected to get underway in Boston this fall.
“We’re thankful to Eli Jorné for two seasons of Dead City that took the story of these iconic characters in exciting new directions and broadened this thriving Universe by introducing a new corner of the walker apocalypse,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “As we continue to create new stories for a passionate TWD fanbase, we’re delighted to have a seasoned Walking Dead veteran like Seth Hoffman at the helm of a new season, alongside the remarkable Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, that will bring new adversaries and alliances and push the boundaries of Maggie and Negan’s conflicted relationship.”
Season two, which finished up on June 22, found Maggie and Negan trapped on opposite sides of a growing war for control of New York City. As their paths intertwined, they came to see that the way out for both was more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined. Per AMC: “In season three, Maggie and Negan finally put aside their differences to build the first thriving community in Manhattan since the apocalypse, but when chaos in the city begins to arise, they are forced to question: have they learned from their old wounds, or will their dark past spell doom for the entire city?”
Executive producers for season three include Hoffman, Cohan, Morgan, Scott M. Gimple, Brian Bockrath, and Colin Walsh.
