Though The Walking Dead will conclude with its eleventh season next year, the franchise is very far from dying. AMC have a tonne of plans going forward, including multiple in-development shows and a movie trilogy starring Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes. One particularly interesting spinoff will follow Norman Reedus’ Daryl and Melissa McBride’s Carol on what’s being described as a fun road trip.
The fan-favourite characters will be journeying across the country, with Reedus teasing it’ll put the pair in fresh situations as they meet new people. But that might not be the only Daryl-related thing coming, as famed leaker Daniel Richtman is reporting that AMC is considering two movies: one that’ll lead into the new show and another about his origins.
For seasoned fans of the show the second one is going to be a bit of a headscratcher as there isn’t a lot of Daryl’s origins left to explore. The character was introduced in the third episode of the first season, set mere months after the apocalypse began. In addition, we saw what Daryl was doing when the walkers appeared in the 2013 video game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, which showed him and Merle making their way to Atlanta where we meet them early in the show.
I guess there’s a chance we could see Daryl and Merle’s pre-apocalypse days as drifters and low-level criminals, but it seems silly to have a The Walking Dead movie without… y’know, the walking dead.
Beyond all that, Norman Reedus is now a decade older than he was when we first met him and, not to beat around the bush, looks it. So, if they did do an origin movie about Daryl they’d likely have to recast the role. I’m going to wait and see if there are any more details of this before I start anticipating it. Don’t get me wrong, the more Norman Reedus in my life the better so bring on movies and shows starring him, but I can’t see how any kind of The Walking Dead Daryl origin movie would work.
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