The Walking Dead: Dead City Premiere Date Set at AMC; Fear the Walking Dead Final Season Trailer Released

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It's been a long wait without content from The Walking Dead universe.

AMC arrived locked and loaded to WonderCon on Saturday afternoon, revealing some exciting updates for fans.

We'll start with The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Maggie in New York - The Walking Dead: Dead City

The highly-anticipated series, which takes place following the conclusion of the main series, will premiere Sunday, June 18, at 10 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+.

The series will premiere out of the midseason finale of Fear the Walking Dead.

Negan in New York - The Walking Dead: Dead City

The decision to air the show an hour later, before it settles into its regularly scheduled time period the following week, is different, and it might not be the best idea.

Fear the Walking Dead is not a strong launching pad. The inconsistent writing found fans fleeing the spinoff in their droves, and the numbers haven't been good for quite some time.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland.

Maggie in the Big Apple - The Walking Dead

The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

A teaser dropped for the series during the panel, but surprisingly, it was revealed online weeks ago, so we'll have to wait longer for the full-length clip.

AMC also dropped the trailer for the final season of Fear the Walking Dead, which is on track for a May 14 launch.

Fear the Walking Dead's eighth season begins after the conclusion of Season 7, when Morgan's (Lennie James) and Madison's (Dickens) hopes to rescue Mo from PADRE did not go as planned.

Now, Morgan, Madison and the others they brought to the island are living under PADRE's cynical rule. 

With our characters demoralized and dejected, the task of reigniting belief in a better world rests with the person Morgan and Madison set out to rescue in the first place -- Morgan's daughter, Mo.

Jenna Elfman Returns - Fear the Walking Dead

The trailer features some big swings, including Morgan returning to the place he lived with his son, back when he met Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead Season 1.

Check out the clip below.

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The Walking Dead: Dead City Quotes

Perlie: My name is Perlie: Armstrong. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I like a good hog stew. Just want to give you a sense of what kind of people I am. I'm not your enemy. I come from New Babylon. Capital city. It's more of a small town, tree-lined streets, families looking out for each other. I got a wife and three daughters. They're my everything. Now, I don't know why you with that man I'm looking for. Or why you've taken one of our marshals hostage. But I'm guessing you got your reasons. Heck, might even be a good one. I'm open to hearing it. And I mean that sincerely. But if I get to you first, I'm going to be a little less open, and I will get to you.

Negan: I hate to even ask, but how do I figure into this, Maggie?
Maggie: The man who's got Hershel, they call him the Croat. Bullshit. You know him. When he scaled our walls, had us surrounded in the dark, right before he took my son. Do you know what he did? [ whistles one high tone, one low tone ] That rings a bell, doesn't it? It did for me. That's the last thing I heard before I met you.
Negan: Oh, that Croat. All right, so what you're thinking is, since I knew this guy back in the day when I was running the show, that maybe I had some special insight into his modus operandi. Or, hell, maybe I could just sweet-talk him into giving you your boy back. We're talking about the same Croat? Let's just say there were a lot of psychos in my crew back then. But he always stood out as being an exceptionally insane son of a bitch. So the odds are if it's the Croat that's got him... No. All right, tell me this. Why would I help you? Maggie: Because you owe me...
Negan: Because I owe you, right.
Maggie: You're the last person that I wanted to ask for help. It doesn't look like you got too many options yourself. Because if I found you here, the marshals will too. Far as I can tell, you have exhausted every shithole.
Negan: Still got a decent setup at Hilltop? Kids? School?
Maggie: I'll put up that girl. You, we see how things play out.

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