New Info On The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon France Spin-Off Emerges

The Walking Dead is ending, and by “ending” I mean shattering into a few different pieces with three spin-offs involving members of the main cast. The first to be announced was Daryl and Carol getting their own show, which was later joined by Negan and Maggie, then Rick and Michonne. And those join Tales and Fear the Walking Dead for a total of five live shows, even after the main one wraps.

The Daryl spin-off, which has since lost Carol, may be the most interesting, however, and we have some new information about it via EW, as these spin-offs are starting to be teased ahead of the final string of Walking Dead season 11 episodes. Namely, I now have my question answered about how Daryl gets to Europe in the first place.

We don’t know. And more pressingly, he doesn’t know, says AMC President Dan McDermott:

“[The show] follow Daryl as he wakes up and finds himself somewhere on the European continent and tries to piece together what happened. How did he get here? How’s he going to get home?”

Daryl’s fate at the end of The Walking Dead proper is unknown, given that Daryl is not a comic book character, and even if he’s sort of taken over the Rick role, who died in the last few issues in the Commonwealth, we know that isn’t going to happen here. But it seems Daryl will simply…wake up there, presumably kidnapped by some group and taken overseas, as I mean, how else would that just happen? I think we can rule out the CRM doing this, as they seem to be a US-based organization, even if kidnapping Walking Dead cast members is sort of their thing.

Norman Reedus has more to say about the kind of show this is going to be, and they want it to be the opposite of what they just finished doing on The Walking Dead, whatever that means:

“We knew we wanted to make a show that went in the opposite direction,” says the star, “just because we didn’t want to do the same thing. So that’s what we’re doing. And it’s going to be way different. The story’s way different. The characters are way different. There’s a different tone, there’s different light, there’s a different sound. It’s a whole different vibe.”

Different light and sound? Uh, okay. But the one difference I’m hoping to see that no one is mentioning here is…different walkers. Namely, we know this new show takes place in France, and we know that France, and possibly the rest of Europe, has a “fast variant” of walkers that were shown in the closing moments of The Walking Dead: World Beyond (honestly the most useful thing that show did).

So what they seem like they’re probably hiding is the idea that the walker threat is going to be way, way different over there. Less shambling hordes and more psychopathic 28 Days Later/Black Summer/Train to Busan-style zombies, which yes, is a very exciting prospect after a decade plus of the Romero slow kind. We’ll see if they talk about that more ahead of the show, or just try to make it a surprise (I mean how many actually watched 20 episodes of World Beyond?).

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