Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Walking Dead series finale.The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira has given fans of the franchise a release window for when her and Andrew Lincoln's upcoming Rick and Michonne spinoff series will air. While The Walking Dead's flagship series ended in November, the zombie franchise is set to continue on AMC with three spinoffs following major characters from the original show. One of these is an untitled Rick and Michonne series, developed by The Walking Dead's chief content officer Scott Gimple, with Gurira herself serving as an executive producer, writer and co-creator. Teased as an "epic love story," the show will follow Rick after his capture by the CRM and Michonne's journey to bring him home.

In an interview from the 20 Questions: On Deadline podcast, Gurira revealed when Rick and Michonne's upcoming The Walking Dead spinoff is planned to be released. She stated the series is slated to air some time at the end of the year, indicating two other upcoming spinoffs - The Walking Dead: Dead City and Daryl Dixon - will air prior to Rick and Michonne's return. Check out Gurira's full statement below:

I think it's late 2023, I think it's somewhere in that region. Halloween there, after. Somewhere there. That is the goal.

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While the release window Gurira teased means fans of The Walking Dead won't be seeing Rick and Michonne for almost a full year, her statement lines up with the production schedule for each of the spinoffs set to air. The Walking Dead: Dead City has finished filming and will begin in April of next year, while Daryl Dixon started filming in October, marking it as the second spinoff to come out. Rick and Michonne's series won't begin filming until January, the late date underscoring how much longer viewers will have to wait until the duo make their return as main characters in The Walking Dead universe.

When Rick and Michonne do return, audiences will learn more about what happened to Rick after he was taken by the CRM, as well as Michonne's experiences as she tries to find him. The Walking Dead series finale featured scenes of the two of them, showing Rick surrendering to the CRM after briefly escaping and Michonne searching for him, now donned in armor of unknown origin. Gimple previously stated that Rick and Michonne's The Walking Dead series finale appearance was one point in the story their spinoff will tell, meaning viewers will learn the context of both Rick's surrender and Michonne's travels when the series airs.

Gimple also teased the duo doing whatever it takes to survive, with Rick channeling his "red machete" tenacity from The Walking Dead season 5 and Michonne behaving similarly to her introduction in season 3. His statement doesn't mean Rick and Michonne will regress as characters, however, instead highlighting just how much danger they'll find themselves in, forced to go back to their darkest points from the original show. With the CRM shaping up to be the most threatening villain yet in The Walking Dead universe, it should prove compelling to see how Rick and Michonne can reunite when their spinoff airs in late 2023.

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