AMC Networks has green light another series set within "The Walking Dead" universe.
The company announced Monday Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are set to star in a new spinoff series titled, "Isle of the Dead".
The new series is set to come to AMC+ and AMC in 2023.
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It will consist of six episodes and will see Cohan and Morgan reprising their roles as Maggie and Negan.
"In Isle of the Dead" follows Maggie and Negan in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. 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.
Screenwriter Eli Jorné serving as the showrunner and as an executive producer on the new series.
Jorné has an overall deal with AMC Studios and has worked for multiple seasons on the original show as a writer and co-executive producer.
The spinoff will also be overseen by Scott M. Gimple, who holds the title of chief content officer for The Walking Dead Universe. Cohan and Morgan will also serve as executive producers on the series.
Based on the comic series of the same name, The Walking Dead follows the story of a group of survivors in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
The series debuted on AMC in 2010 and has routinely been one of the network's highest viewed shows.
"Isle of the Dead" will be the fifth spinoff of The Walking Dead. In 2015, the first spinoff set in the universe, "Fear the Walking Dead", premiered and was recently announced to be getting a season 8.
The second spinoff, "The Walking Dead: World Beyond", aired its final season last year after being originally planned to only have two seasons. This year is set to see the premiere of a third spinoff, an anthology series called "Tales of the Walking Dead".
The fourth spinoff is a currently untitled spinoff focusing on the fan-favorite characters of Daryl and Carol, played by Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride, that is expected to premiere in 2023 along with "Isle of the Dead".
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