'The Walking Dead' YA Spin-Off Trailer: Jordon Vogt-Roberts Directs The Pilot For A New Generation Of Zombie Survivors

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The not-at-all-unsubstantiated knock on AMC’s “Walking Dead” series is that it’s way past its prime. Onto season 4,000, or whatever the number is these days, “The Walking Dead” was one of the most popular shows on television for years with immense and insane ratings. But the critical reception dropped off dramatically in the first few years, to the point the show has become something of a joke outside of the money it makes for AMC. The Season 9 finale of “The Walking Dead” that aired last spring was the lowest-rated finale the show has ever had, but that’s just not stopping AMC.

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First off, on Saturday at New York Comic-Con, it was revealed that fan-favorite actor and character—Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggies Green— would return to the “Walking Dead” franchise for the just-announced eleventh season. Then, to follow that up, AMC revealed the trailer for their still-untitled “Walking Dead’ YA spin-off, which features a younger generation born into the zombiepocalypse and not knowing anything else.

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“They’ve grown up in the apocalypse,” Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple said of the new series at New York Comic-Con, via The Hollywood Reporter. “They’re aware of walkers. They haven’t interacted with them. They’ve been [living] beyond walls. That makes any journey they need to make incredibly dangerous. They are affected in different ways by what happened. They don’t remember much of a world without walkers. This is the normal world for them, but they’ve been apart from it. They’ve been in safety. There’s a quest aspect to this show. They’re going somewhere. They have to leave this place of safety to put themselves in a position where they have to fight for their survival and what they believe in. It’s a different kind of story in the world of ‘The Walking Dead,’ and it introduces a new world.”

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Now, to be honest, we usually don’t care much about “The Walking Dead” and cover it sparingly—the idea of the franchise trying out movies to see if they can compete in that realm, is at least admittedly interesting from a looking-at-Hollywood-ambition perspective—but filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island,” “The Kings of Summer”) directed the pilot episode, so maybe it’s worth keeping an eye out for that.

The untitled drama stars Annet Mahendru, Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, and Hal Cumpston and is expected sometime in 2020. Watch the trailer below and let us know what you think.