The Walking Dead Season 11, Part 3, or Season 11C, whatever people are calling it, is the finale of AMC’s long-running survival adventure, premiering on October 2, 2022. AMC revealed the release date in a highly anticipated trailer shown at San. Diego Comic-Con.
The third part of season 11 will return Norman Reedus as Daryl, Melissa McBride as Carol, Khary Payton as Ezekiel, Lauren Cohan as Maggie Greene and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan to the ensemble cast. These eight episodes conclude the 24-episode final season of a show that first aired in October 2010. AMC previewed the final stretch with an action-packed trailer, one of our last looks at Caryl and the upcoming confrontation with Commonwealth Governor Pamela Milton. (Laila Robins) and Lance Hornsby (Josh Hamilton).
The SDCC stage was packed for the final Walking Dead panel, with Reedus, McBride, Payton and Morgan joined by Christian Serratos, Ross Marquand, Seth Gilliam, Josh McDermitt, Michael James Shaw, Cailey Fleming and Lauren Ridloff. Scott Gimple, the franchise’s chief content creator, was also in attendance, along with showrunner and executive producer Angela Kang, and Greg Nicotero.
Season 11, originally scheduled for October 2020, was interrupted by the global COVID-19 pandemic and rearranged AMC’s plans for the series finale. The first part of season 11, which includes the first eight episodes, eventually aired from August 22 to October 10, 2021, with the second part following from February 20 to April 10.
Although the 12-year-old series, based on the comic book series started by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore in 2003, has steadily lost ratings, the final season is not the end of the franchise on AMC. A spin-off series, Tales of the Walking Dead, will premiere on August 14. AMC has also scheduled Isle of the Dead, centered on Maggie Greene and Negan, to air sometime in 2023. And an untitled spin-off starring Reedus as Daryl is expected soon after (McBride left the series in April this year).
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