The series presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a different world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable force. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... and ultimately a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation they've never known before? Are they enemies? Loved ones? Victims? Overcomers? Are they still alive without each other - or will they discover that they too are the Walking Dead?
Lincoln is a sheriff who led the group of survivors for the first nine seasons. In the fifth episode of the ninth season, "What Comes After," he is presumed dead by members of his group after blowing up a bridge with dynamite to scare off hordes of zombies. As he subsequently disappears, we eventually learn that he has in fact survived, as he flies off with Anne (Pollyanna McIntosh) and her allies.
Gurira's Michonne is a katana-wielding survivor first introduced in the third season, who joins Grimes' group and eventually falls for him, becoming a surrogate mother to his children. The character last appeared in season ten, when she set out to find Rick after learning he survived his near-fatal injury in season nine.
Both characters returned for the final moments of the finale, each in a different place and apparently at a different time. They were connected by images of campfires and the sounds of their voices reciting words they each wrote in a diary.
Brandt (pictured) played Maze, a demon from hell and beloved anti-hero, in all six seasons of Netlix's Lucifer. She is also known for her role as Naevia in Steven S. DeKnight's Spartacus: Blood and Sand franchise. Her other television roles include Gotham and The Librarians (2014).
In the six-part The Walking Dead spinoff, Brandt will play a character named Pearl Thorne. Further details about the character are kept under wraps.
The premiere of the Rick and Michonne series is scheduled for 2024.
Scott M. Gimple, Chief Content Officer of The Walking Dead Universe, serves as showrunner and executive producer alongside Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth, and Brian Bockrath.
