Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) are back in action in the trailer for the highly-anticipated Walking Dead series, The Ones Who Live.
via: EW
And that is not the only action on display. We also see helicopters blowing up buildings, zombies on fire, a city being decimated — it seems as if the Civic Republic Military has been very busy indeed.
Perhaps the biggest takeaway is that Rick appears to be working for the CRM. Against his will, perhaps, but we not only see him in the CRM three-ring jacket that first made its appearance at the end of The Walking Dead series finale, but we also see him culling walkers at the gate and having a meeting with the leader of the Civic Republic Military, Major General Beale (played by Terry O’Quinn.)
“I'm just going to ask you a question, Grimes,” says Beale in the trailer. “Look in your eyes. Why are you here? Do you want to kill, or do you want to die?” To which Grimes responds: “Look at my eyes, sir. You tell me.”
This exchange falls in line with what O’Quinn told EW to expect between Beale and Grimes on the show: “When he starts dealing with Rick, we don't know exactly what to do with him, or who he is, or what he is,” says O’Quinn. “And so he plays coy with Rick a lot, and I think there's a lot to be found out there. So Rick helps discover the heart of the man, I think.”
Also of note in the trailer is not only the presence of Pollyanna McIntosh’s Jadis (who went from bad to good to bad again over the course of The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond), but a lingering shot of a mysteriously helmeted helicopter pilot. Could this be Isabelle from Fear the Walking Dead or someone else from the franchise’s past?
“We can make this whole damn world ours if we want to,” says Gurira’s Michonne to close out the trailer (which can be viewed above). The latest chapter of that journey begins Feb. 25.
It's great to see Rick and Michonne back in The Walking Dead universe, because quite frankly I have not been feeling any of the Walking Dead spinoffs they've released as of late.
I just hope with two of my favorite characters returning for their standalone series that the writing lives up to the fan hype.
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