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The death of Carl Grimes in The Walking Dead is one of the post-apocalyptic drama’s most shocking demises. Though we’re used to our favorite characters getting gruesomely killed off on the show, Carl’s longevity in the comics and status as the son of the unkillable Rick Grimes led us to believe he was off limits. But the brave teen perished after becoming infected with a zombie bite halfway through season 8.
Carl being written out caused a huge stir at the time, as fans were furious that Chandler Riggs had been given the boot. And he hasn’t returned to the franchise ever since, even though there was the perfect opportunity to get him back for a hallucinatory cameo in Andrew Lincoln’s last episode in season 9. But the reason why this didn’t happen has maybe now been made clear, as it appears that Riggs might be coming back for Lincoln’s spinoff movies instead.
According to insider Daniel Richtman, Carl will feature in one of the films that AMC is planning with Lincoln in the lead. Carl won’t be somehow resurrected, though, as he’ll apparently appear via flashback. The tipster doesn’t actually specify that Riggs will be playing the role, so we could be looking at a similar situation to the season 8 finale, which contained a flashback to a toddler-aged Carl, but it seems like a safe bet that Richtman’s scoop means the fan favorite actor will be involved.
Given Riggs’ obvious aging throughout the series, then, this means the flashback can only come from shortly before his death. Maybe Rick will think back to some previously unseen father/son bonding moment with his firstborn during one of the films. Remember, Dania Gurira is also likely showing up as Michonne, following her own exit from the parent series in season 10.
While we wait for these movies to enter production, The Walking Dead returns to TV for six new episodes on Sunday, February 28th.
Although a lot of fans will be hoping that the impending HBO Max release of Zack Snyder‘s Justice League could persuade Warner Bros. to give the green light to a direct sequel, the filmmaker himself has admitted that the studio have no interest in returning to that well for what would be a third time.
You can completely understand their position as well, with the additional post-production, filming and marketing costs associated with the Snyder Cut pushing the total expenditure on the entire endeavor to almost half a billion dollars. The door isn’t completely closed by any means, but it’ll take a lot of convincing for the boardroom to kick it wide open.
Next up for the director is Netflix’s zombie heist thriller Army of the Dead, which marks his first non-DCEU effort behind the camera for ten years. A shared universe is already in the works with a feature film prequel and anime series on the way, but in a new interview Snyder admitted that he was considering something surprising for his next movie.
“I’m working on something, but we’ll see. I’ve been thinking about some kind of retelling, like real sort of fateful retelling, that Arthurian kind of mythological concept. We’ll see. Maybe that will come at some point.”
Netflix’s Cursed may have found a big audience when it was released last summer, but it still hasn’t been renewed for a second season as of yet, with question marks surrounding the interest modern audiences hold in Arthurian legend. Of course, the elephant in the room is obviously Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which was panned by critics and went on to become one of the biggest box office bombs in history when it was released in the summer of 2017.
Ritchie’s origin story was more than a little reminiscent of Snyder‘s work given the constant speed-ramping, washed out color palette and reliance on effects-heavy fantasy, but the movie’s abject failure will have no doubt put the major studios off approving any similar projects for the foreseeable future.