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[Jimmy ValenTime]

'The Walking Dead' Spinoff: Everything We Know So Far

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  Cliff Curtis, Alycia Debnam Carey, and Frank Dillane
  
  While The Walking Dead fans are still reeling from Beth's brutal death in Sunday's midseason finale, AMC is making big moves on the TWD spinoff series. Actor Cliff Curtis — best known to TV viewers for his roles in Trauma, Gang Related, and Missing — has been cast as Sean Cabrera, the character who will act as the companion series' version of TWD leader Rick Grimes.
  
  New Zealand native Curtis, 46, also has an eclectic movie résumé, including Three Kings, Bringing Out the Dead, The Insider, Training Day, Whale Rider, Live Free or Die Hard, Push, The Last Airbender, and Blow, in which he played Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
  
  Related: Take a Bite Out of Our 'Walking Dead' Recaps
  
  The spinoff series, which will be set in the same postapocalyptic world Rick Grimes and friends are maneuvering through, albeit in a different location, has no official title yet, but The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline report that Curtis's Sean is a divorced teacher who is "a good man trying to do right by everyone in his life."
  
  AMC will not confirm character or storyline details (or the show's working title, Cobalt), but The Hollywood Reporter reports that Sean has a son with his ex-wife, Andrea, and that his female counterpart in the series is a character named Nancy Tomkins, a guidance counselor at the school where Sean was a teacher.
  
  The Nancy role has not yet been cast, but her children have: British actor Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and In the Heart of the Sea) will play Nick, who has dealt with drug problems, and Australian actress Alycia Debnam Carey will play Ashley, described as Nancy's "ambitious" daughter. Carey also had a role in Galyntine, the Greg Nicotero-directed sci-fi drama pilot that AMC passed on earlier this year.
  
  Related: 'The Walking Dead' Showrunner Scott Gimple on the Finale's Big Death and the Return of You-Know-Who
  
  TVLine.com reported in September that the Cobalt cast will also include Sean's son Cody, a rebel "known as the angriest kid in town," and a 40-something "somewhat wilted flower child" named Andrea Chapman, who is still reeling from a bad marriage (and who sounds a little like a mash-up of TWD characters Carol and Andrea).
  
  Other speculation about the spinoff includes the suggestion that the story will be set in the early days of the apocalypse, before walkers overran the world.
  
  Does that mean there's a chance Sean's group and Rick's group could meet up eventually?
  
  The companion series pilot, co-written and executive produced by TWD universe creator Robert Kirkman and former Sons of Anarchy (and current Marco Polo) producer Dave Erickson, will also count TWD executive producers Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert as executive producers, with Erickson as the showrunner.

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/...off--everything-we-know-so-far-202656211.html


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Will update with a title and other info as stuff happens ...

 

[Food Mane]

It should be that guy and his crew from Training Day. I'd tune in every week to watch them push zombies shyt in.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

actually thought the spin off would be carol or Lee Everett from the game ...

 

[beaniemac]

would a spinoff bet set in the same zombie world as TWD????

would the characters be folks we have seen in passing on TWD????

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

would a spinoff bet set in the same zombie world as TWD????

would the characters be folks we have seen in passing on TWD????

it seems different people (non Comic) different place and at the start of the apocalypse which could be fun from a pure carrange aspect...

 

[Groanman]

They should fashion this spinoff like the 80's A-Team tv show.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

They should fashion this spinoff like the 80's A-Team tv show.

this need to be a different tone to work and be a hit ... if its as melo drammtic people gonna feel they just can stick to the regular show

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Earlier this week, we reported that AMC’s Walking Dead spinoff—codenamed Cobalt—would revolve around a divorced male teacher, a female guidance counselor, a drug-addicted son, and an ambitious daughter. (Also, zombies). The son is being played by young Voldemort, Frank Dillane, and the daughter is Into The Storm‘s Alycia Debnam Carey. Now, thanks to Deadline, we also know who’s playing the divorced male teacher: Cliff Curtis, who recently appeared on Fox’s short-lived Gang Related.

Other than those character descriptions—and now the actors playing those characters—the only thing we know about Cobalt is that it will be take place in a different location than vanilla Walking Dead. We don’t know what that location will be, though, which seems like a crucial thing for AMC to be so tight-lipped about. Of course, even doing as little research as possible on Cliff Curtis, Alycia Debnam Carey, and Frank Dillane reveals what seems to be a major clue as to what that location will be, but we don’t want to spoil it for anyone. On an unrelated topic, has anyone ever seen a zombie kangaroo? Or maybe a zombie double-decker bus, assuming Australian people can do a British accent?



http://www.avclub.com/article/walking-dead-spinoff-has-found-its-male-lead-212638


The Walking Dead spinoff casts some of its zombie bait

In a clever attempt to make viewers forget that AMC accidentally spoiled a major plot point from Sunday night’s episode of The Walking Dead, the first casting news and character details for the upcoming companion series have been released. The show—which is now going under the working title Cobalt—was recently put on track to debut in 2015. It will be set in the same zombie-infested world as The Walking Dead but take place in a different location, and initial casting reports said it would feature the requisite troubled adults and teens. Now we know that the main characters will be a divorced male teacher and a female guidance counselor, whose drug-addicted son will be played by Frank Dillane (Tom Riddle in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince), while Alycia Debnam Carey (Into The Storm) will play his “ambitious” sister.

Given the continued ratings bonanza of the already-renewed parent series, it should be expected that The Walking Dead: Cobalt (Whatever That Means) will also be a pretty solid performer for AMC, and that the powers that be are already figuring out how to set up a crossover where Daryl works out his grief over the death of [spoiler redacted] with the help of the guidance counselor, likely in the front seat of a Chevrolet Cobalt.

http://www.avclub.com/article/walking-dead-spinoff-series-casts-some-its-zombie--212508

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Character break down ...

Spoiler: Charcter Break Down

SEAN CABRERA | A Latino male in his early 40s, Sean is a good man trying to do right by everyone in his life.

CODY CABRERA | Sean’s whip-smart and rebellious teenage son. Known as the angriest kid in town.

NANCY TOMPKINS | A thirtysomething single mom to two kids, Nancy looks like the girl next door, but there’s an edge to her.

NICK TOMPKINS | Nancy’s screwed up teenage son. He’s too old to stay home, too scared to flee.

ASHLEY TOMPKINS | Nancy’s mostly level-headed teenage daughter. Her ambition is in direct proportion to her older brother’s failures. She loves her mom but it’s time to get out of Dodge.

ANDREA CHAPMAN | A somewhat wilted flower child, fortysomething Andrea — yep, another Andrea! — has retreated to the outskirts of the city to recover after a horrible marriage.

 

[Canada Goose]

This is great

I LOVED the Webisodes so I will be checking this out

Us zombies brehs are so good with OG TWD, Z Nation and now this spinoff

I hope we get a newscast about how the zombie outbreak got outta hand in TWD universe, sort of like that deleted scene in the remake of "Dawn of the dead".

 

[RaverDan]

I don't know, I think they're going for too much here. Cashing in on the success of TWD, AMC's getting a little greedy here. Though TWD is one of my favorite shows, making a spinoff is just zombie overload. People are going to get jaded with the genre and stop watching zombie anything altogether

 

[Uncle Trill]

The fukk is the point of this

 

[Canada Goose]

I don't know, I think they're going for too much here. Cashing in on the success of TWD, AMC's getting a little greedy here. Though TWD is one of my favorite shows, making a spinoff is just zombie overload. People are going to get jaded with the genre and stop watching zombie anything altogether

Doubt that... just look at Broadcast TV and all those cop shows




Nearly all of CBS's dramas are cop shows and its the most watched network on TV

 

[RaverDan]

Doubt that... just look at Broadcast TV and all those cop shows Nearly all of CBS's dramas are cop shows and its the most watched network on TV

you've got a point. I was thinking about all those cop shows as I posted that, but it seems to be a different beast. People have liked cop dramas since sleuthing stories like Sherlock Holmes (I personally hate all cop shows, they're all the same). It makes people feel good when they figure out the mystery before the story ends. Idk, I love the current zombie craze, if it's done right, But if they overrun stations with too many zombie shows, I feel like the trend would die down

 

[Bone Bender]

"Vanilla Walking Dead"?

Are they implying the spinoff will be crazier?