The Walking Dead loppuu – Tällaisella viestillä asia kerrottiin sarjan näyttelijöille

11. tuotantokausi on The Walking Deadin viimeinen.

Yllättävän pitkään pinnistellyt The Walking Dead on nyt päätetty lopettaa seuraavan eli 11:nnen tuotantokauden jälkeen. Uutisen mukaan zombisarja jatkuu tuon jälkeen kyllä spinoffeina, mutta varsinainen emosarja tulee nyt päätökseensä.

Tieto lopettamispäätöksestä lähetettiin sarjan näyttelijöille kirjeellä, jonka ovat allekirjoittaneet sarjan nykyinen showrunner Angela Kang ja The Walking Deadin sisältöpäällikkö Scott Gimple. Samaisessa kirjeessä vahvistetaan, että Carol ja Daryl saavat oman spinoffinsa parin vuoden päästä ja että viimeinen TWD-kausi tulee olemaan 24 jakson mittainen.

Comicbook sai käsiinsä sarjan henkilökunnalle lähetetyn kirjeen, joka kokonaisuudessaan kuuluu näin:

“TWD Family,

As you may have seen in the press, we’ve come to a very big moment.

After our next, supersized season that will span a couple years, The Walking Dead will be coming to an end.

For all of us — especially those who have been a part of this show for the better part of a decade — this is a seismic announcement. Just to break it down:

• • Season 11 will be the final, extended season of The Walking Dead, running 24 episodes, probably shooting until early 2022. (We say “probably,” being optimistic but recognizing current production-pandemic uncertainties that affect the schedule.)
  • A Carol & Daryl spinoff has been greenlit by AMC for 2023.
  • Tales of The Walking Dead, an anthology series, is in development, as well as other possible TWD series/expressions.

We can’t believe the end is upon us, however far away it is. This crew, this cast, these writer/producers and producers are the show. You are this show’s immediate future of 30 astounding episodes to fulfill our epic story and you will be among those who seal its legacy in entertainment history.

We have reached millions around the world, and we will continue to reach millions more. There’s a lot of work ahead of us, a lot of opportunities to be there for each other, to bring out each other’s best, to bring our show to new heights of excellence.

We’re lucky to have an audience that has stuck by us over ten years of massive change in the world. We hope to have been a point of stability in people’s lives — something they could count on every week (or as part of a late summer binge) to make them feel — happy, heartbroken, intrigued, scared, excited, inspired. Maybe a little grossed out. Maybe considering things about their own life. Maybe considering who they are. People will need those feelings again. And that stability again. And we can give that to them with this epic final season, the last chapter of a multi-year saga of people figuring out how to live in a broken world.

There is hard work, good times, and amazing moments ahead. The only way we can climb this mountain of episodes is how we’ve always done it: together. Let’s begin the long road to the end, standing side by side, in solidarity to do some awesome stuff with all the people who got us here, for all the people who got us here.

As ever, we are The Walking Dead.

– Scott M. Gimple & Angela Kang”