I know you all are anxious for more details on the upcoming Walking Dead companion series, as are we. AMC has released news today they’ve cast the female lead of the show. The new series, code named Cobalt has set Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, Sons of Anarchy) to star opposite Cliff Curtis.
The project was created by Robert Kirkman, on whose graphic novel The Walking Dead was based, and Dave Erickson, with Adam Davidson set to direct. Dickens landed the female lead after a lengthy casting process, with AMC testing a number of actresses for the role.
The untitled Walking Dead spinoff, code name Cobalt, takes place during the same zombie apocalypse depicted in the blockbuster mothership series but in a different location. It revolves around a divorced teacher (Curtis) and a guidance counselor (Dickens), who are working together and are in a relationship. The counselor has two children from a previous marriage, played by Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam Carey. She looks like the girl next door but has a darkness to her, a troubled past that will come back to haunt her.
We already know the series will be set in Los Angeles during the infancy of the zombie apocalypse and will be a prequel to the existing show.
More on this as it develops.
Source: Deadline
