Daryl’s Walking Dead’s Spin-Off Takes Place in France?!

Mon dieu! Zut alors! Merde! French fries! The Walking Dead’s ever-expanding TV universe head honcho, Scott Gimple, has revealed that the upcoming spin-off starring Norman Reedus’ Daryl will in some way happen in France, and I merely can’t wrap my tête round it.

This is a daring transfer for the franchise, figuratively and actually. If you’re nonetheless watching the primary, soon-to-end Walking Dead collection, you realize that the present takes place within the east-most third of the United States, significantly in Alexandria, Virginia, and the unnamed place in Ohio the place the capitol of the Commonwealth sits. Keen-eyed readers might need seen that each of those areas are located in North America and never Europe. But throughout the Talking Dead: The Walking Dead Universe Preview 2022 particular, Gimple revealed that the upcoming present will in some way be set in France. Via ComicBook.com:

“Daryl is a fish out of water to start with. If Daryl finds himself with new people, he’s a fish out of water. In France, in a country that’s going through the apocalypse, [it’s] an entirely different thing. He finds himself having to reinvent himself again, having to find himself again, and also, not being with—probably—the only people in the world he’s comfortable with.”

We knew that Melissa McBride, who was set to co-star as Daryl’s BFF Carol, dropped out of the present as a result of she didn’t need to relocate to Europe. But I believe nearly everybody assumed that filming was going to happen there solely due to tax breaks the nation supplied, not that the present can be set there.

So the primary large query is that this: How does Daryl get to France? It’s so wild I’m not going even speculate about who might need a ship or airplane with the facility to make a trans-Atlantic journey. The second large query: Why?! Why would Daryl take a European Vacation? Or who would trouble to deliver Daryl to France, and for what motive? Gimple talked about that it’s going to have one thing to do with the smarter, quicker, “variant” zombies talked about in The Walking Dead and briefly seen on the short-lived spin-off World Beyond in a post-credits scene that was… set in France. These zombies may even be a significant factor within the the rest of TWD’s ultimate season and a few, if not all, the upcoming spin-offs.

While we’ll have to attend till 2023 for these Daryl, Maggie and Negan, and Rick and Michonne collection, The Walking Dead will return this October 2 for its ultimate eight episodes.

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