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The Walking Dead: World Beyond038 | W W W.SCI FI N OW.CO.U K
Remember when The Walking Dead was
just that black and white zombie comic?
Well, now it’s a franchise, spawning comics,
three TV shows and a fi lm in the works. The
third TV show to join the shuffl ing ranks
of the walking dead is The Walking Dead:
World Beyond. Where the fl agship show has
followed its shifting group of heroes from
the moment Rick Grimes woke up in the
middle of a zombie apocalypse, and Fear The
Walk ing Dead took us back to the earliest
days of the outbreak, World Beyond takes
place a decade after civilisation collapsed,
and focuses on a group of teens who can
barely remember the world as it was before.
This isn’t a toothless teen take on The
Walk ing Dead, though. World Beyond still
boasts face-chomping walkers – or ‘empties’,
as the characters on this show call them- and will no doubt have a similarly blasé
attitude towards major character deaths. But
when we fi rst meet the characters of this
show, they have spent years being sheltered
from the brutal realities of the Walk ing Dead
universe. Showrunner Matthew Negrete,
who has been a writer on The Walking Dead
since Season Four, tells us that World Beyond
takes place initially in a community which
is “unlike anything we’ve ever seen on The
Walk ing Dead because it feels very fi rst
world... They have running water, they have
walls to protect them, and they have a lot
of the conveniences that we all have today,
only they’re ten years into the apocalypse.
They’ve been very privileged in a lot of ways,
and they’ve been very sheltered.”
When Scott Gimple, Chief Content
Offi cer for The Walking Dead universe, fi rst
approached Negrete about a spin-off, they
knew they needed something “fresh and new
and different from the other two shows”,
Negrete says. Part of that was about creating
a world that wasn’t just about survival. The
characters in World Beyond have grown up
in a place where the inhabitants have been
researching the contagion that caused the
outbreak and examining the environment
they now live in. These kids have grown up
relatively safe, but well aware of the dangers
MUST-SEE TV
The Walking Dead: World Beyond038 | W W W. S C I FI N OW.CO.U K
Remember when The Walking Dead was
just that black and white zombie comic?
Well, now it’s a franchise, spawning comics,
three TV shows and a fi lm in the works. The
third TV show to join the shuffl ing ranks
of the walking dead is The Walking Dead:
World Beyond. Where the fl agship show has
followed its shifting group of heroes from
the moment Rick Grimes woke up in the
middle of a zombie apocalypse, and Fear The
Walk ing Dead took us back to the earliest
days of the outbreak, World Beyond takes
place a decade after civilisation collapsed,
and focuses on a group of teens who can
barely remember the world as it was before.
This isn’t a toothless teen take on The
Walk ing Dead, though. World Beyond still
boasts face-chomping walkers – or ‘empties’,
as the characters on this show call them
- and will no doubt have a similarly blasé
attitude towards major character deaths. But
when we fi rst meet the characters of this
show, they have spent years being sheltered
from the brutal realities of the Walk ing Dead
universe. Showrunner Matthew Negrete,
who has been a writer on The Walking Dead
since Season Four, tells us that World Beyond
takes place initially in a community which
is “unlike anything we’ve ever seen on The
Walk ing Dead because it feels very fi rst
world... They have running water, they have
walls to protect them, and they have a lot
of the conveniences that we all have today,
only they’re ten years into the apocalypse.
They’ve been very privileged in a lot of ways,
and they’ve been very sheltered.”
When Scott Gimple, Chief Content
Offi cer for The Walking Dead universe, fi rst
approached Negrete about a spin-off, they
knew they needed something “fresh and new
and different from the other two shows”,
Negrete says. Part of that was about creating
a world that wasn’t just about survival. The
characters in World Beyond have grown up
in a place where the inhabitants have been
researching the contagion that caused the
outbreak and examining the environment
they now live in. These kids have grown up
relatively safe, but well aware of the dangers