The Walking Dead: With Rick, Negan, Daryl and Co. – these are all (planned) TWD spin-offs

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“The Walking Dead” proved to be such a great success for the US broadcaster AMC that an entire franchise was developed from the zombie series. So the story continues in a different way!

The TWD universe now includes a whopping six spin-off series, but not all of them have been released yet. The planned cinema films have now been canceled again and have been remodeled into a series.

So that you don’t lose track, we’ll explain what the spin-offs are about and how they may be related.

1. Fear the Walking Dead

2. The Walking Dead: World Beyond

3. The Walking Dead: Rick and Michonne

4. Tales of the Walking Dead

5. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

6. “The Walking Dead: Dead City”: The spin-off about Maggie and Negan

7. This is how the series are connected

8. Here’s what you need to know about the CRM

Fear the Walking Dead

Five years after the start of TWD followed 2015 with “Fear the Walking Dead” the first TWD spin-off. Featuring all-new cast members, a story set during the early days of the zombie apocalypse has been told.

However, due to numerous time jumps, the timelines of FTWD and the parent series TWD crossed and some TWD characters could become part of the spin-off.

Morgan Jones, who was the first person Rick Grimes met on TWD, and ex-Savior Dwight, for example, have become integral parts of the spin-off. However, in the midseason finale of Season 8, Morgan has gone off to search for Rick. So it’s possible that there will be a crossover with the spin-off “The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne”.

In this country you can see FTWD on Amazon Prime Video.

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The Walking Dead: World Beyond

A third series from the TWD universe followed in autumn 2020 with “The Walking Dead: World Beyond”. The series is set in a community in Nebraska, ten years after the apocalypse.

The focus is on a group of teenagers belonging to the first generation who grew up in the apocalypse. They want to experience for themselves what is lurking behind the walls of their sheltered small town and set off. However, the series only has two seasons, each with ten episodes. “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” can also be seen streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

The Walking Dead: Rick and Michonne

In November 2018, Gimple announced on the TWD talk show Talking Dead, which airs in the US after each new TWD episode, that he plans to direct three TWD feature films.

The lead role will be played by none other than Andrew Lincoln, who is said to play ex-cop Rick Grimes again in the films after he left the parent series.

Also starring is Jadis/Anne (Pollyanna McIntosh), who Rick handed over to a new, secretive group after the bridge blast. After Danai Gurira left the series, it was also speculated that Michonne could become part of the film franchise. After all, she goes in search of Rick in the series after she finds some clues as to his whereabouts.

Since San Diego Comic-Con 2022 it has been clear that these films will not exist. Instead, a dedicated spin-off series for Rick and Michonne has been announced, which will be released as early as 2023. In it we will most likely see the story that was also planned for the films, with a focus on the two former TWD main characters and their search for each other.

Tales of the Walking Dead

The spin-off “Tales of the Walking Dead” is a bit out of line. The anthology series set in the TWD universe tells a completed story of a character from the original series in each episode. That’s how we saw villain Alpha again.

“Tales of the Walking Dead” can be seen in Germany on MagentaTV.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

It was originally planned that Carol and Daryl would get a joint spin-off that was supposed to be released in 2023. However, Melissa McBride has since dropped out of the project as filming was to take place in Europe. In “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” the taciturn motorcyclist should start again on his own.

Since we are in the last scene of WorldBeyond Having learned that the zombie apocalypse may have originated in France, we could see Daryl searching for the beginning and end of the virus. In the finale of “The Walking Dead” we already saw that Daryl left. On his journey he also wants to look for Michonne and Rick.

It’s now confirmed that Daryl will indeed be roaming France. Also, Melissa McBride was spotted filming the series together with Norman Reedus in Paris. So we can look forward to a reunion of the dream team.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City”: The spin-off about Maggie and Negan

While it’s been rumored for some time that Negan is getting his own TWD spin-off, the fact that he’s now forming a duo with his nemesis Maggie came as a surprise. Since June 2023 we have been seeing the TWD offshoot “The Walking Dead: Dead City”. The two roam Manhattan, New York City to rescue Maggie’s son, Hersehl, from the clutches of a brutal villain. The series hasn’t started in Germany yet, but with this trick you can already see “TWD: Dead City” in Germany.

This is how the series are connected

To get the feeling of a real serialuniverse to awaken, there are of course some connection points between the series. In “The Walking Dead”, “Fear the Walking Dead” and “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” this has so far been expressed through crossovers of some characters and cleverly scattered Easter Eggs.

For example, the attentive FTWD viewer already knew before the airing of the 14th episode of TWD Season 10 that behind Beta’s mask was a famous country singer. In FTWD, actor Ryan Hurst was already seen on a record that the character Daniel dropped.

But since season 8 of TWD, attempts have been made to weave a larger construct around all series and films and to connect all titles. So a mysterious symbol consisting of three rings was shown again and again. The network is behind it “Civic Republic Military”, CRM for short. This also plays an increasingly important role in FTWD and World Beyond.

Here’s what you need to know about the CRM

Initially, the CRM was often referred to as the “Helicopter Squad” due to the constant appearance of helicopters with the three ring logo from TWD Season 8 onwards. Jadis/Anne kept in touch with the group via radio and was supposed to provide them with people, which she divided into “A” and “B” people. Rick belongs to the “B” category. So the CRM also becomes part of the Rick and Michonne spin-off.

But the CRM also appeared in FTWD Season 5. Morgan’s group is attacked by undead CRM soldiers. After Al examines the body, a live CRM soldier knocks her out and kidnaps her.

It turns out that behind the soldier’s helmet was Isabelle, who reveals that she is from the CRM and that they and her colleague Beckett were looking for fuel for the helicopters. Since the two women are attracted to each other, they decide not to talk about their encounter. Because Isabelle’s mission is to kill anyone who finds out about the CRM.

The CRM is a military alliance that also features in The Walking Dead: World Beyond. The CRM massacres the community in Nebraska, the campus colony, killing thousands. Even before this event, the protagonists of the spin-off disappear in order to find the father of the two sisters, Hope and Iris.

Through “World Beyond” we also learn that Jadis/Anne is now a high-ranking CRM soldier. The finale of the series also suggested that we could expect a European spin-off from TWD. This is where the Daryl spin-off will definitely start.

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In an interview with the US magazine Entertainment Weekly, Scott M. Gimple also revealed that the CRM touches on all series in the TWD universe, but is not the focus of the story.

So the organization is a big common touch point of all the works of the AMC TWD franchise.