While the fans of The Walking Dead Mourning the loss of the hit post-apocalyptic horror series in recent months, writers and producers have been hard at work on AMC’s three new spin-offs.

On Saturday, the network gave fans a taste of The Walking Dead: Dead City by releasing a trailer showing original show favorites Lauren Cohan, 41, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 56, reprising their roles. like Maggie Greene and Negan.

Network representatives also announced the The show, which was originally scheduled to launch in the spring, will now premiere Sunday, June 18 at 10 p.m. ET on AMC and AMC+, according to Deadline.

After the pilot premieres, the remaining five episodes will move to the 9 p.m. ET time slot.

Having served as a writer, producer and co-executive producer on TWD’s flagship series over the course of its 11 seasons, Eli Jorné now takes the reins as executive producer of Dead City.

Following the end of The Walking Dead, which aired its final episode on November 22, 2022, Negan and Maggie lead the new cast as they travel to a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that has been cut off from the mainland in search of Maggie’s kidnapped son, Hershel.

And with the zombie apocalypse still raging, the city in ruins is full of “the dead and inhabitants who have made New York City their own world filled with lawlessness, danger, beauty, and terror.”

Maggie’s unusual pairing with Negan seems beyond unlikely—many fans would agree it would be next to impossible—when you consider that the Saviors’ sociopathic, totalitarian leader brutally killed Maggie’s husband, Glenn (Steve Yeun), in an unbelievably tense and amazing moment of the show.

Negan’s character had just made his series debut in the final episode of season six titled Last Day On Earth.

Glenn’s violent murder occurred in the season seven premiere, The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be, just after the group had headed to the Hilltop to seek help for Maggie, who is the eldest daughter of Hershel (Scott Wilson); both were introduced near the beginning of the second season of TWD.

Along with the two TWD remnants, Dead City also stars Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek, Jonathan Higginbotham, Mahina Napoleon, Trey Santiago-Hudson, Charlie Soli, and Michael Anthony,

During a panel, Cohan, 41, opened up about how the awesome team between Negan and Maggie came to be.

“It’s interesting because we see a level of raw trauma that we know happened between Maggie and Negan. In Dead City, we really have an opportunity to (ask), ‘What is this? What does it take to get through it?” the New Jersey native said, adding: “And more than anything, it’s an opportunity for us to be forced together on this mission. The tension and immovable things are still very present.’

The spinoff’s new showrunner shared some of the elements that bring a fresh new perspective to the storytelling.

It’s The Walking Dead as we’ve never seen it before. We haven’t really lived in a city like this’, revealed Jorné in statements collected by Deadline. ‘It’s New York; there are sky-high skyscrapers and a million and a half walkers.

He added: “And for characters like Maggie and Negan, who have been running through the woods for a long time, it’s a whole new world that’s extremely claustrophobic, scary, and also, as you’ll find out, has pockets of survivors, you’ll be able to see all the new and strange ways they live in the apocalypse, definitely not like anything you’ve seen before.

The other two new spin-offs involving characters from the original show are The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, starring Norman Redus as the title character, and an untitled series with Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira).