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<ul class="summary-list"><li>During a virtual New York Comic Con panel for the 15th anniversary of "Lost," creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof answered fan questions about the <keyword id="6369596" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abc">ABC</keyword> series.</li><li>Cuse and Lindelof said they have no interest in returning for a reboot or spinoff.</li><li>Both agreed they would support another show in the <keyword id="9859371" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lost">"Lost"</keyword> universe if someone comes along with a great idea that their able to sell to Disney, who owns ABC.</li><li>"They will have our blessings to do that," Cuse said. "We see no reason to do it. It doesn't feel like there's anything that we have left to say that's worth saying."</li><li>Lindelof said no one from Disney has ever ran any spinoff or reboot pitches by him.</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/category/abc">ABC</a>'s hit series "<a href="http://insider.com/category/lost">Lost</a>" ended a decade ago. Co-creator <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/damon-lindelof">Damon Lindelof</a> and executive producer and writer <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/carlton-cuse">Carlton Cuse</a> said if someone else has a good idea to continue telling stories in that universe, they'd give them their blessing.Just don't expect to see them to return to the island.During a virtual <a href="http://insider.com/category/nycc-2020">New York Comic Con</a> panel Saturday celebrating the 15th anniversary of the show's premiere, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were asked what they both think about any possible reboot or spinoff. "It would not be a good idea for us to go back," Cuse <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AkqqS9dFDI">told panel host Josh Horowitz</a>. "This comes up all the time and, I think, Damon and I have been very consistent and forthright on this topic. We told the story that we wanted to tell."Over six seasons, "Lost" followed a group of survivors of Oceanic flight 815 who crash landed on an island. As they tried to go back home (and then get back to the island), it was consistently a top-rated show on ABC.<div type="image" title="lost jack" height="616" width="1111" msid="78598495" hostid="261"></div>To this day fans love rewatching the series and discussing the series' few unsolved mysteries — including one Cuse and Lindelof said they'll never answer about the identity of those people on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQO6hrltBg">season five outrigger</a>.While they have no interest in rebooting "Lost" or exploring any spinoffs, Lindelof said he would be supportive of anyone who pitched a good idea. "If somebody else comes along who has a great idea to do something set in the 'Lost' universe and sells that to The Walt Disney Company, they will have our blessings to do that," Cuse said. "We see no reason to do it. It doesn't feel like there's anything that we have left to say that's worth saying. We did it."Lindelof said Disney has never come to him with any other show pitches since the show wrapped up in 2010. While Lindelof said he has read stories online about past and current ABC executives being <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lost-will-abc-ever-reboot-it-1182951">open to the idea of rebooting the series</a>, no one at the network has brought that to his attention. "For the three final seasons of the show — four, five, and six — we put so much emotional energy into ending this show," Lindelof added of why they have no need to revisit this world. <div type="image" title="lost nycc panel" height="521" width="933" msid="78598497" hostid="261"></div>Lindelof said they learned in the middle of season three that they would be given three more seasons to chart out an ending to the series. He pointed out that they were able to do something quite rare with the ABC series as opposed to now "where shows regularly end or are finite or are limited series or '<a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-tv-shows-cancelled-ending-2020-9">we're only going to do three seasons of this thing or whatever.'</a>""In 2004, which is when 'Lost' started, and, certainly, in 2007 when we announced that it was going to end and it still was very highly rated, everyone said to us, 'They're never going to let you end this thing.'" Lindelof said."For us to put so much emotional energy into getting the ending and then all the creative energy in seasons four, five, and six of doing the ending the best we could, to do the ending on our own terms, the way that we wanted to, it really does feel like then to turn around even 20 years later and say, 'Well, that wasn't the ending,' It was just 'an ending,' it feels wrong on every level, but that's because it was our ending," he continued. Lindelof says, despite that, he agrees with Cuse wholeheartedly about welcoming new ideas into the "Lost" universe. "Enough time has passed for an entire generation of people who grew up watching 'Lost' to now say, 'Hey, I'm a writer,' you know, or 'I've got to take on this thing,'" Lindelof said. "I would love to see a new generation of storytellers take on the 'X Files' or even 'Twin Peaks' or 'Lost.'" "I think that stories can be told by anyone and anyone can take, take control of the story and make it their own vision and that would be quite exciting," Lindolf added.You can watch the full "Lost" anniversary panel below.

'Lost' creator and executive producer say they have no interest in a reboot or spinoff, but they'd give their blessing if one ever happened

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Fans were treated to a surprise screening of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" at New York Comic Con.</li><li>Director <keyword id="11936918" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jason-reitman" source="Orion">Jason Reitman</keyword> told fans they waited long enough. He just asked they don't spoil the film.</li></ul>Sony's anticipated "<a href="http://insider.com/category/ghostbusters-afterlife">Ghostbusters: Afterlife</a>" panel at New York Comic Con was well worth the wait. Director Jason Reitman, his father (original "Ghostbusters" director) Ivan Reitman, and a number of cast members, including Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace, treated fans to a special screening of the upcoming film Friday night at the Javits Center in New York City.Reitman said though he loves streaming, and said that it helped get him, like many others, get through the pandemic, that he loves movies and knew the fans who came out Friday in person - some who were in Ghostbusters costumes - did, too. "We wanted to make a <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword> to be enjoyed with a huge audience with popcorn on a big screen, with incredible sound, where you're experiencing it the way you experienced the movie in '84," Reitman said."I'm thrilled to be at Sony, which is the studio most dedicated to theatrical films," Reitman added to a round of applause. Fans thought that they were about to see a few clips from the upcoming release, which had been delayed multiple times since its original July 2020 date. Instead, Reitman told them there was a change of plans."It's been a while since we started making this film and you all are the most patient fans on Earth. And, frankly, my father and I think you've waited long enough," Reitman said to cheers, whistles, and screams as the crowd realized they were about to see the film.<div type="image" title="Jason Reitman and Ivan Reitman Ghostbusters Afterlife NYCC 2021 panel" height="2657" width="3600" msid="86886009" hostid="261"></div>Ivan Reitman serves as a producer on the new film. During a short panel, which opened the film, Ivan said his son was "very brave" to take on this project. "If we're gonna be sincere, look the whole reason we're here tonight is because of the man that's sitting to my left," said Jason of his father to immediate applause, which only got louder and louder for over 30 seconds.As some fans started to stand, Ivan said his son was going to make him cry.<div type="image" title="Ghostbusters Afterlife nycc panel 2021 Jason Reitman and Ivan Reitman" height="1333" width="2386" msid="86885704" hostid="261"></div>Before the film started, Reitman asked the crowd to preserve spoilers for the film which won't be in theaters until late November."I want everyone who ever gets to see this film to see it the right way. I want them to see it the way you're about to see it," Reitman said before he and the cast walked off stage. "Even if you love this film, please do not spoil it."<h2>So what did the crowd think? Without spoilers, they loved it. </h2><div type="image" title="nycc ghostbusters afterlife" height="3024" width="4032" msid="86885707" hostid="261"></div>Insider was on hand for the surprise screening.If you're a fan of the original 1984 "Ghostbusters," you're going to love this. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" is easily one of the best films we've screened this year (I'd argue it's more enjoyable than Marvel's great "Shang-Chi" and the very good "Bond" film out right now.).I won't say much about the film otherwise. Reitman's right. The film should be experienced with as few spoilers as possible. I will say that the Comic Con crowd cheered and clapped throughout the film during many specific moments. This was one of the rare times since 2019 that I watched a film screening with a large group of fans (the others were "Venom 2" and "Fast 9"). This screening produced the largest reactions of the three.At the film's end, many gave the film a standing ovation.<div type="image" title="Ghostbusters Afterlife NYCC 2021" height="3024" width="4032" msid="86885710" hostid="261"></div>"Afterlife" is nostalgia done right while introducing the universe to a new generation who may not be familiar with the original franchise. It's accessible regardless of whether you're a diehard fan or a new one.Young stars McKenna Grace and Logan Kim will be fan favorites. <h2>Reitman hinted more 'Ghostbusters' films may be on the way</h2><div type="image" title="Mckenna Grace using a proton pack" height="700" width="1400" msid="86885711" hostid="261"></div>Before the movie started, Reitman teased his hopes that "Afterlife" is just the beginning of more films in the "Ghostbusters" universe."It is an honor to be here at Comic Con. The last time I was at Comic Con was 10 years ago with 'Jennifer's Body,'" Reitman said of the Megan Fox-starring cult favorite."We wanted to make a movie that opened the universe to all kinds of stories. I want to see 'Ghostbusters' movies from all of my favorite directors and we hope that this movie sets the table for that," Reitman said to another round of applause.If the energetic Friday night crowd at New York Comic Con is any sign of how the movie will perform at the box office, Reitman will get his wish."Ghostbusters: Afterlife" will be released, only in theaters, on November 19.

Fans were surprised with a very early screening of the next 'Ghostbusters' movie at New York Comic Con and it was a clear hit

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="952399" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Walking-Dead">The Walking Dead</keyword>" season 10 is receiving an additional six episodes, which will debut on <keyword id="6358378" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="amc">AMC</keyword> Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 9 p.m.</li><li>If you have AMC+, new episodes will premiere on the streaming service every Thursday starting on February 25, 2021.</li><li>Showrunner Angela Kang previously told Insider the episodes will feature Aaron, Carol, Daryl, Negan, Maggie, the Commonwealth, and more. </li><li>"Terminator 2" actor Robert Patrick joins the cast as a mysterious man named "Mays." Okea Eme-Akwari ("Cobra Kai") is <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-who-is-the-masked-man">playing the masked man teased on the season 10 finale</a>.</li><li>Jeffrey Dean Morgan's wife, Hilarie Burton, also joins the cast to play his onscreen wife, Lucille.</li></ul>"<a href="https://www.insider.com/category/the-walking-dead">The Walking Dead</a>" season 10 is getting six bonus episodes next year. Showrunner Angela Kang announced at San Diego Comic-Con summer 2020 that the series will get six "extra" episodes in season 10."We will not be airing season 11 episodes this year as we normally would in October, but we're excited to announce an extended season 10 and there will be six extra episodes to follow the finale," said Kang. Thursday, AMC announced the extra episodes will debut on AMC starting Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 9 p.m. If you subscribe to the network's streaming service, <a href="https://www.amcplus.com/">AMC+</a>, you'll be able to watch new episodes weekly starting on Thursdays.The six new episodes bring the season 10 count to 22. (Typically, the show's seasons run for 16 episodes.)<div type="image" title="angela kang season 11" height="1526" width="2822" msid="77161008" hostid="261"></div>What does that mean? Will we get a shorter episode run for season 11? No. An AMC representative confirmed to Insider these new live-action episodes will have no impact on the episode count for season 11. These additional episodes will simply extend season 10.In early September, AMC announced "TWD" will end after its 11th season <a href="https://www.insider.com/when-will-the-walking-dead-end-final-season">with an extended season comprised of 24 episodes</a>. An AMC representative clarified to Insider the decision to end the series in its 11th season was made after the decision to expand season 10.During the <keyword id="1745653" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sdcc">SDCC</keyword> "TWD" panel, Kang said the writer's room was working remotely on season 11 for the past few months. These new additional season 10 episodes will be a way to keep fans fed as they await the show's return.<h2>These new episodes will be character-driven stories.</h2>Series writer Kevin Deiboldt described them to us as "in-between-quels." What does that mean? It means you can expect to see more isolated, character-driven stories. "In order to film safely, we've had to think really deeply about what we can accomplish at this point in a way that is hopefully still really creatively satisfying," said Kang of filming the bonus episodes during the ongoing pandemic."It doesn't have 300 zombie extras in a scene breathing on all of our actors," Kang said. "It's been a really interesting and fun creative challenge for us on the writing side to try to do some deep dives into some of our characters." "These six episodes were in many ways written with producibility in mind in the times that we're in," "TWD" universe chief content officer Scott Gimple told Insider. "They were conceived as great stories, but they kept in mind that the safest way to do it. And what I find fascinating is with those constraints, these are six of like the best scripts we've done."Kang said these will not be six random episodes. As we understand it, the six episodes will serve as a bridge to season 11 while filling in some other gaps along the way."There are things that are going on with our people and their communities and so there are things that start to tie those into what will become the major story in season 11," Kang added. <h2>Who will appear in these six bonus episodes? Here are the episode titles and descriptions.</h2><div type="image" title="twd s10 bonus episodes" height="600" width="1200" msid="78524933" hostid="261"></div>Where has Maggie (Lauren Cohan) been since leaving the show on season nine? What is this new <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-who-are-commonwealth-soldiers">mysterious group</a> that was teased on the season 10 finale? Kang told Insider, we'll learn more about both."We'll learn more about Maggie's adventures," Kang said. "There's some other things that we're doing deep dives into like Daryl and Carol and Negan, Gabriel, and Aaron has some really cool stuff." "We'll see other characters in there ... and we'll check back in with that group, with the Commonwealth," Kang said of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-who-are-commonwealth-soldiers">new group teased at the very end of the season 10 finale</a>. "I'm not even sure if I should be saying all of this."AMC released Thursday the following episode titles and descriptions for the forthcoming episodes.Here they are listed below:Season 10, Episode 17 – "Home Sweet Home" Director: David Boyd Writers: Kevin Deiboldt &amp; Corey ReedMaggie (Lauren Cohan) has returned with a story she is not ready to share, even when her past catches up to her. Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) safety is at stake again. Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Maggie fight an unseen and unknown threat.Season 10, Episode 18 — "Find Me" Director: David Boyd Writer: Nicole Mirante-MatthewsAn adventure for Daryl and Carol (Melissa McBride) turns sideways when they come across an old cabin. It takes Daryl back to the years when he left the group after Rick disappeared as he relives a time that only the apocalypse could manifest.Season 10, Episode 19 — "One More" Director: Laura Belsey Writers: Erik Mountain &amp; Jim BarnesGabriel (Seth Gilliam) and Aaron (Ross Marquand) search for food and supplies to bring back to Alexandria. Small tragedies lead to bigger tragedies as faith is broken and optimism is fragmented when they are put to the ultimate test.Season 10, Episode 20 — "Splinter" Director: Laura Belsey Writers: Julia Ruchman &amp; Vivian TseEugene (Josh McDermitt), Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), and Princess (Paola Lázaro) are captured and separated. Princess struggles with memories of her traumatic past and tries to escape one way or another with the help of Ezekiel.Season 10, Episode 21 — "Diverged" Director: David Boyd Writer: Heather BellsonDaryl and Carol come to a fork in the road and head their separate ways. Each going into their own type of survival mode, the easiest of challenges become much harder. Will their individual journeys be the tipping point needed to mend their friendship or is the distance between them permanent?Season 10, Episode 22 — "Here's Negan" Director: Laura Belsey Writer: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrickCarol takes Negan on a journey, hoping to minimize the increasing tension. Negan reflects on the events that led him to this point and comes to a conclusion about his future.<h2>Kang previously teased we may see an adaptation of the "TWD" spinoff comic series about Negan.</h2><div type="image" title="twd 1005 negan" height="2000" width="3000" msid="79031487" hostid="261"></div>During the NYCC virtual panel, Kang answered fan questions in a live chat and said, "Here's Negan fans will be happy soon."Released in 2016, "Here's Negan!" provides Negan's full backstory. Until now, we've heard Negan hint at his relationship with his wife, Lucille, who died from cancer. Are we going to get a massive flashback? It sure sounds that way. Comicbook.com's Brandon Davis first reported that Hilarie Burton ("One Tree Hill") will <a href="https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/news/the-walking-dead-hilarie-burton-negan-lucille-cast/">join "TWD" as Negan's wife, Lucille</a>. That's pretty perfect when you know <a href="https://people.com/tv/hilarie-burton-why-she-married-jeffrey-dean-morgan/">Burton and Morgan were married in 2019</a> after being together for a decade.<div type="image" title="hilarie burton jeffrey dean morgan twd 2019" height="1433" width="1910" msid="79031488" hostid="261"></div>"Been pretty hard to keep this a secret," Burton <a href="https://twitter.com/HilarieBurton/status/1323692851725803521">tweeted</a>. "But I love working with @JDMorgan. I love watching him become #Negan an take on that swagger. And I love @TheWalkingDead family. They've been a part of our family for ages and I'm so grateful for their kindness."The character-centric deep dive likely provides the perfect story that would be easier to film during the pandemic. It also helps that Burton and Morgan have been quarantining together on their farm with their two children.<h2>Connie will not be back on the show until season 11.</h2><div type="image" title="twd 1016 connie alive" height="2000" width="3000" msid="78524934" hostid="261"></div>The final minutes of the finale showed fan-favorite Connie (Lauren Ridloff) alive. Where has she been all season and will she make it back to our group now that Virgil (Kevin Carroll) has found her?We'll have to wait a while to see her again.When asked if Connie may be in one of the bonus six episodes, Kang said, "She's not, but we have a big episode planned for her." Kang added, that it's not because they didn't want to have her there. "At the time that we had to lock these episodes, her schedule was still up in the air," Kang continued. "We have an episode that should be really cool for people coming up afterwards. We're working on that for her."<h2>How they filmed these episodes during the pandemic.</h2><div type="image" title="twd 1016 commonwealth eugene" height="3000" width="4500" msid="79031490" hostid="261"></div>When we spoke with Kang back in September, the crew was in pre-production, preparing to safely film.During <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPDD_L8C6I">an October 2 appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live,"</a> Lauren Cohan said and costar Norman Reedus were in quarantine waiting to start filming. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChtNc6SLHR0&amp;t=1st=1s">During a separate appearance on Kimmel</a>, Reedus, who was in Los Angeles for the majority of the pandemic, spoke a bit about the protocols and precautions they're taking on set, saying, "We have to take COVID tests three times a week. We have epidemiologist from the Pentagon during the SARS scare [as] our onset doctor now."Reedus added that it's weird to be back filming in Georgia during the fall since they're usually filming the series during some of the hottest months of the year.During NYCC's panel, Kang said it took production a few months to get everything up and running to film safely. "Everybody will have masks and face shields and they've done the trailers differently," Kang said. "There's sanitation stations everywhere. There's UV lights and air scrubbers and things on the stages. There's a former military infectious diseases specialist who's our health and safety supervisor.""It's an abundance of caution in every way," Kang added. "We've had to think a lot about, 'How do we tell the story so they're satisfying and dive into character and give a little bit of adventure, but being really creative about how many people we can have in a scene. How can we show things while keeping people a little bit distant wherever we can? It's forced us to really think outside of the box because we've really had a box around us in terms of how to do it safely."Until the flagship show returns, you'll have to settle for the rest of "TWD" universe. Season six of "Fear the Walking Dead" is continuing its best season in years each Sunday at 9 p.m. It's followed by new episodes of "TWD: World Beyond."You can <a href="https://insider.com/category/the-walking-dead">follow along with Insider's "Walking Dead" coverage here</a>.

'The Walking Dead' will air 6 bonus episodes starting February 2021. Here's everything we know.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira are returning to TV on their own "Walking Dead" spin-off.</li><li>"The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live" will continue Rick and Michonne's love story.</li></ul>Six years after <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-who-are-helicopter-people-crm">departing "The Walking Dead,"</a> fans will finally learn what happened to Rick Grimes in a spin-off show.Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira surprised fans at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022 <a href="https://www.insider.com/andrew-lincoln-danai-gurira-rick-michonne-walking-dead-show-2022-7">announcing their joint return to "TWD" universe on a TV series</a> to continue Rick and Michonne's <a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-rick-michonne-relationship-timeline-2018-10">love story</a>. "This has been the most extraordinary journey playing Rick Grimes for the best part of a decade," Lincoln said at the time in a press release to Insider. "I'm so excited to be returning to the screen as Rick, reuniting with Danai as Michonne, and bringing the fans an epic love story to add to 'The Walking Dead' universe."<div type="image" title="Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln SDCC 2022" height="2410" width="3512" msid="104443765" hostid="261" sizebytes="682266"></div>Lincoln left "TWD" in dramatic fashion. While Rick's friends and family believed he died in a bridge explosion and collapse, audiences watched a gravely wounded Rick <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-who-are-helicopter-people-crm" rel="">fly off in a mysterious helicopter</a>. After a <a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-how-long-is-time-jump-season-9-2018-11">massive time jump</a>, Gurira's character, Michonne, left the series two years later in search of her man after <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-where-is-rick-2020-3">discovering a clue</a> he may be alive. Rick's journey was initially set to continue in a <a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-rick-grimes-movies-2018-11#">trilogy of movies</a>, which are no longer moving forward. Here's everything fans need to know about the return of the "TWD" power couple to TV next year.<h2>It's called 'The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live'</h2><div type="image" title="Andrew Lincoln sitting while covered in blood and sweat on &quot;TWD: The Ones Who Live.&quot;" height="1913" width="3771" msid="104443766" hostid="261" sizebytes="247170"></div>Originally referred to as "The Walking Dead: Rick &amp; Michonne," AMC revealed the show's official name, "The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live," <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-rick-and-michonne-trailer-release-date-2023-7">with a trailer reveal</a> at 2023's San Diego Comic-Con.Fans will recognize the title as a reference <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-finale-recap-details-you-missed#judith-tries-to-tell-daryl-the-secret-phrase-her-mom-and-dad-shared-before-she-passes-out-7" rel="">to the phrase often shared between the two lovers</a>.After being separated for years, Michonne and Rick will be trying to find their way back to one another on the "TWD" spin-off. Rick has presumably been detained for years by a group known as the <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-who-are-helicopter-people-crm">Civic Republic Military</a> despite <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-finale-ending-rick-michonne-explained-2022-11">at least one effort to escape</a>."TWD" universe chief content officer Scott M. Gimple will serve as showrunner and executive producer. In an <a href="https://www.self.com/story/danai-gurira">interview with Self</a>, Gurira described herself as a cocreator of the series, writing the show alongside Gimple. She and Lincoln also serve as executive producers.Bert &amp; Bertie, who have directed episodes of "The Great" and "Our Flag Means Death," <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/bertie-hawkeye-and-troop-zero-director-signs-with-range-media-partners-1235370312/">directed the pilot</a>.<h2>Rick and Michonne will be joined by new and old faces</h2><div type="image" title="Jadis/Anne TWD World Beyond 209" height="3000" width="4500" msid="104443767" hostid="261" sizebytes="490636"></div><a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-helicopter-pollyanna-mcintosh-jadis-interview-spoilers-2018-4">Pollyanna McIntosh</a> will reprise her role as Jadis from both "TWD" and spin-off "<a href="https://www.insider.com/twd-world-beyond-finale-review">World Beyond.</a>"A leader in the Civic Republic Military (CRM), Jadis flew off with Rick on his final episode of "The Walking Dead" to get him help.At NYCC 2023, "Lost" star Terry O'Quinn was announced as the formidable CRM General Beale whose name has been thrown around in the "TWD" universe. Matt Jeffries and Lesley-Ann Brandt were also cast in the roles of Nat and Pearl, respectively. The latter appears to be a member of the CRM.<div type="image" title="Matt Jeffries and Lesley Ann-Brandt as Nat and Pearl on &quot;TWD: The Ones Who Live.&quot;" height="600" width="1200" msid="104443769" hostid="261" sizebytes="61332"></div>Fans also <a href="https://twitter.com/ughoogitabah/status/1712570949068009829" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spied King Bach</a> in the series. The social media star appeared on Michonne's <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-D-HbEnF5o/?hl=en">final episode of "TWD"</a> in 2020.Many have wondered if Julia Ormond's CRM leader, Elizabeth, will also return. That remains to be seen.<h2>It's one season, for now</h2><div type="image" title="Danai Gurira on &quot;The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.&quot;" height="3000" width="4500" msid="104443770" hostid="261" sizebytes="654550"></div>Gurira has described the show as a "<a href="https://www.self.com/story/danai-gurira">prestige miniseries.</a>"When announced in 2022, AMC said the series will "<a href="https://www.insider.com/andrew-lincoln-danai-gurira-rick-michonne-walking-dead-show-2022-7">begin with six episodes</a>," making it seem as if there's potential for this to be more than a limited series.<h2>It will premiere in February 2024</h2>AMC has announced "TWD: The Ones Who Live" will debut on AMC and AMC+ in February.We wouldn't be surprised if the greatest "TWD" love story kicks off around Valentine's Day on February 10 or February 17 to mirror previous "TWD" universe scheduling.

Here's everything to know about Rick and Michonne's 'The Walking Dead' spin-off

If you've been feeling like you're watching the same stories again and again on television lately, it's not just you.It's hard not to see double. In the past six months, there have been revivals of intellectual properties like "Avatar: The Last Airbender," "Percy Jackson," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "One Piece," and "One Day" on streaming services. With the exception of "One Piece," the anime adaptation of which has been in production since 1999, all of these shows are based on novels or television series that were first adapted as films in the 2010s.By the numbers, many of these twice-retread adaptations — which generally have taken the form of eight-episode TV shows released in the 2020s — are often successful. Netflix's<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/one-piece-season-two-live-action-release-2023-9"> "One Piece" was picked up for a second season</a>. "Percy Jackson" was also renewed and brought in<a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/01/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-viewership-reacher-young-sheldon-nielsen-1235805328/"> big viewership numbers for Disney+</a>. And on March 6, Netflix <a target="_blank" href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/avatar-the-last-airbender-season-2">picked up "Avatar: The Last Airbender"</a> for a second and a third season barely two weeks after its premiere, presumably allowing it to adapt the full story told in the cartoon series.But while the numbers are there, the substance doesn't necessarily follow. For every under-the-radar critical hit like Netflix's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-pilgrim-anime-differences-netflix-better-2023-11">"Scott Pilgrim Takes Off"</a> or big-budget success story like "One Piece," there's another middling adaptation-of-an-adaptation that's inexplicably staying afloat despite glaring creative problems."Percy Jackson" was a hit for Disney+. But for me, the series fell flat creatively, playing too by the book at some points and undercutting its own tension in others by rushing through exposition and action. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/19/percy-jackson-disney-series-review/71933778007/">USA Today</a> called the series "more half baked than half-blood," while <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/20/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-review-the-kind-of-easy-family-viewing-you-dont-get-from-the-mcu">The Guardian</a>'s Leila Latif wrote that the show was a letdown, despite being "an improvement on Percy's prior screen outings."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-review-disney-1235760226/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> critic Daniel Fienberg's review captured the central tension of the adaptation, noting that the series did, without a doubt, hew much closer to its source material than the preceding films."Is that the same, mind you, as being a good show?" Fienberg wrote. "Only occasionally."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-avatar-the-last-airbender-reviews-what-critics-are-saying-2024-2">"Avatar: The Last Airbender" more egregiously missed the mark</a>, struggling in its attempt to adapt the original cartoon's episodic structure into a serialized drama that's desperately trying to do something different than the original cartoon — at the expense of developing its characters.Yet the question of what creative value these retreads actually deliver the viewer hardly seems to matter to streamers and studios these days, as they greenlight more and more of these re-remakes, undeterred. Just look at Warner Bros. Discovery, which has a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harry-potter-tv-series-info-2023-4">"Harry Potter" TV series</a> on the horizon in 2026. Or Lionsgate Television's upcoming "Twilight" television series, which <a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/john-wick-twilight-tv-series-lionsgate-television-animated-1235846773/">Deadline</a> reported will be animated. The right IP, the logic goes, is simply too big to fail. But is that really true?<h2>Familiar IP is comforting to viewers — and risk-averse executives</h2>Even as we <a target="_blank" href="https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/peak-tv-over-golden-age-hbo-streaming.html">move out of the "Peak TV" era</a>, an oversaturated market can make falling back on familiar properties appealing.Parrot Analytics director of strategy Julia Alexander told Business Insider that since franchises already have dedicated fan bases, they can provide decision-makers with a false sense of security. The idea is that a series based on familiar, beloved IP stands a better chance at capturing part of the consumer pie than something original. And given that some of these franchises are decades old — "Avatar" premiered on Nickelodeon in 2005 — they also have an intergenerational appeal."There's a sense that you are going to expand the total addressable market of that show by really leaning into the nostalgia and curiosity that comes with it," Alexander said.<div type="image" title="zuko accompanied by two fire nation soldiers in avatar, each wearing helmets" height="2394" width="3600" msid="108309606" hostid="261" sizebytes="238076"></div>That intergenerational appeal is at the forefront for some creators. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" is already a story about parents: The titular hero spends the first season of the show trying to save his mother while also grappling with the new knowledge that his absent father is actually Poseidon, lord of the sea. Co-showrunner Jon Steinberg told BI and other reporters at a New York Comic Con 2023 roundtable ahead of the show's premiere that the show was intentionally supposed to speak to both parents and kids."As an adult, I think we wanted to make sure that if you're sitting there with your kid watching it, it's speaking to you in a language that your kid might not have any awareness is even being spoken, but it's loud and clear, and its jokes work a different way, and its emotional setups work a different way," Steinberg said.Shifting the medium or tone of a story also has the potential to bring it to a larger audience, if it can also balance that with catering to longtime fans. In an interview with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ign.com/articles/the-big-netflix-avatar-the-last-airbender-producer-interview-this-is-a-remix-not-a-cover">IGN</a>, "Avatar: The Last Airbender" showrunner Albert Kim said that the new adaptation had to also appeal to "Game of Thrones" fans.While those remarks <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-avatar-the-last-airbender-netflix-remake-is-already-controversial">generated some trepidation</a> among "Avatar" fans, it's not too hard to see the logic — if you're going to invest in a major fantasy adaptation, you're going to hope to widen the scope. Hopefully, that doesn't come at the expense of what drew in those who originally loved the story.<h2>Television gives more space to expand on a beloved story</h2>After lackluster film adaptations of "Avatar" and "Percy Jackson" in the 2010s (in the case of "Avatar," lackluster is putting it mildly — the 2010 M. Night Shyamalan film holds an appalling <a target="_blank" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender">5% on Rotten Tomatoes</a>) trying again on television can appeal to creators because it provides the space to tell the story "right" this time.For Rick Riordan, the author of the "Percy Jackson" novels, and his wife Becky, who is also an executive producer on the television series, it was also an opportunity to adapt the series on their terms. (The Riordans were <a target="_blank" href="https://rickriordan.com/2018/11/memories-from-my-tv-movie-experience/">not involved in the 2010 films</a>, and have publicly expressed their dislike for some of the changes the films made.)"From the very earliest conversations we had with Fox and with Disney, we were pretty adamant that television was the right format," the writer told Business Insider. "That with eight episodes, with a broader canvas, we could tell the story of an entire novel much better than we could do with a two-hour feature film."<div type="image" title="percy jackson in the disney plus live action show, crouching behind a crate and intently holding a gleaming golden sword" height="2000" width="2667" msid="108309607" hostid="261" sizebytes="134172"></div>Alexander, the streaming analyst, has a personal theory: A television series demands greater time and attention investment from fans than a feature film, and could keep viewers on a platform longer after watching.If a fan has watched eight hours of a television show, that time sink might incentivize them to seek out other related series on the same platform — especially if they start auto-playing as what's recommended to watch next. After you watch the live-action "Avatar," you can dive back into all three seasons of the original series, or the sequel series "The Legend of Korra" (I did both). That kind of thinking explains why Netflix is trying to become the home of all things "One Piece" after the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-one-piece-live-action-series-b2407756.html">success of its live-action adaptation</a>. The platform will be streaming the new season of the anime, adding existing seasons to its catalog, and even producing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-one-piece-release-date">its own original, separate anime adaptation</a> of Eiichiro Oda's manga. That means that eventually, there will likely be three separate adaptations of the main "One Piece" continuity on Netflix: the original anime, the live-action adaptation, and the streamer's new anime adaptation — and that doesn't even include the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/2774160">assorted "One Piece" movies and specials</a> on the platform. <div type="image" title="the straw hat pirates in the one piece anime, a crowd of people in brightly colored clothing. monkey d. luffy is in the foreground, a young man with a red vest, straw hat, and wide smile" height="550" width="733" msid="108309608" hostid="261" sizebytes="52848"></div>All of this matters when it comes down to potentially increasing the LTV — lifetime value — of a customer, keeping them on the platform for longer, and ideally decreasing churn (essentially, the rate of unsubscribing) among a particular audience base.<h2>Not all of these adaptations are good — but there's a reason certain ones succeed</h2>Both "Percy Jackson" and "Avatar" had the difficult task of becoming the definitive adaptation of their source material after film adaptations that fell short of fan expectations. While certain failures did lead to positive changes in the re-remakes — Netflix's live-action "Avatar" features an Asian and Indigenous cast after <a target="_blank" href="https://www.polygon.com/24079373/avatar-last-airbender-live-action-racebending">whitewashing in the 2010 film</a>, for example — both shows feel plagued by warring impulses to deliver on fans' expectations for redemption while also producing something new."Scott Pilgrim Takes Off" and "One Piece" don't have the same problem.Edgar Wright's "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," while a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2674427393/">box-office flop</a>, is a cult classic and genuinely good movie. The "One Piece" anime, like Oda's original manga, is beloved in its own right and will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. When it comes to rebooting these properties in a new medium, there's nothing to salvage, because previous versions weren't bad — and while the showrunners had the pressure of living up to something good, they weren't tied up in something to beat. (It's worth noting that both Bryan Lee O'Malley, the author of the "Scott Pilgrim" comics, and Eiichiro Oda, the author of "One Piece," were involved in each respective adaptation).Netflix's "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off," the lowest-profile show from this cohort, was good because it had the courage to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-pilgrim-anime-differences-netflix-better-2023-11">blow up its original story</a>. An eight-episode anime series produced by acclaimed Japanese studio Science Saru, it's a transformative take on O'Malley's original comics that embraces the weirdness that made the source material so good in the first place, without trying to be too precious about preserving what's on the page. Its action sequences sing in animation, and the show's writing makes good use of the longer runtime by actually developing characters rather than recreating prior setpieces or plotlines. It was one of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-netflix-tv-shows-ranked-rotten-tomatoes-2023">Netflix's best-reviewed shows of 2023</a>.<div type="image" title="iñaki godoy as luffy in netflix's one piece. he's stretching out his cheek, demonstrating that he can stretch like rubber, and grinning widely" height="1800" width="2400" msid="108309610" hostid="261" sizebytes="80132"></div>Even the live-action "One Piece" managed to vastly exceed expectations, bucking the trend of largely terrible anime-to-live-action adaptations that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vulture.com/article/naruto-live-action-movie-cast-release-date-details.html">simply will not quit</a>. The series was successful not just because it embraced the inherent silliness of the manga, but because that silliness just works so damn well on-screen, infused into a pretty adept serialized structure that covered the franchise's arc.This isn't to say that these showrunners don't feel trepidation to iterate on something successful. "One Piece" co-showrunner Matt Owens told <a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2023/10/one-piece-showrunner-matt-owens-season-2-interview-jamie-lee-curtis-1235563095/">Deadline</a> that he knew the live-action series would have to contend with fans' adoration for the original series, as well as apprehension about live-action anime adaptations in general."I didn't sleep for two days before release because I didn't know what to expect with this labor of love that has been such a big part of my life," Owens told Deadline. "And also I'm a peasant so I was expecting the worst anyway."<div type="image" title="scott pilgrim in the anime, surrounded by his friends, and ramona's assorted exes in the background in the middle of a crater" height="2160" width="3840" msid="108309611" hostid="261" sizebytes="325320"></div>O'Malley, who is a co-showrunner on "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off," told BI and other reporters at New York Comic Con that for years, he didn't think revisiting "Scott Pilgrim" on screen made sense. But when he began to spitball ideas for a new series with co-showrunner BenDavid Grabinski, things started to click."We didn't make any choices that were just for the hell of it," Grabinski told BI at NYCC. "There were emotional reasons why we were doing this version of the story. There were narrative reasons, and we just felt very strongly that this was the most satisfying, and surprising, and entertaining thing we could do."Ultimately, if Hollywood is determined to keep making these re-remakes, future showrunners would do well to take note. And for the executives greenlighting them, maybe redemption isn't the right path — it's much more effective to create something new with familiar stories than try to rectify the mistakes of the past.

Hollywood keeps making, then re-making, then re-re-making beloved franchises. But what's in it for viewers?

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="2830441" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fear-the-Walking-Dead">Fear the Walking Dead</keyword>" fan-favorite Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) was seemingly killed off the show on season four.</li><li>"TWD" universe chief content officer, <keyword id="3121941" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Scott-Gimple">Scott Gimple</keyword>, told Insider there's "absolutely a chance that we could see Madison" again.</li><li>Gimple says they're exploring "a lot of narrative possibilities" and they have to work it out with everyone involved, including Dickens.</li></ul>It looks like fans may get their wish and see fan-favorite Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) again in some way in "<a href="https://www.insider.com/category/the-walking-dead">The Walking Dead</a>" universe after the character was seemingly killed off "<a href="https://www.insider.com/category/fear-twd">Fear the Walking Dead</a>" on season four.When asked if there's a chance that fans will ever see Madison again, either alive or in a flashback, "TWD" universe chief content officer, Scott Gimple, gave Insider a very optimistic outlook. "I believe that not only within 'Fear,' but just within the greater 'Walking Dead' universe, there's absolutely a chance that we could see Madison," Gimple told Insider."There's a lot of narrative possibilities that we're exploring and then certainly, you know, [we] got to work it out with everybody involved and Kim Dickens is a very, very busy person. But I think it's entirely possible," Gimple added.When Insider recently spoke with "<keyword id="10243932" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fear-twd">Fear TWD</keyword>" showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, <a href="https://www.insider.com/fear-twd-is-madison-alive-2020-11">we asked them the same question</a>. Chambliss said they definitely talk about the possibility of seeing Madison again. Goldberg added that "we never saw her body."Gimple told Insider he agreed with both Chambliss and Goldberg's responses. Dickens' character appeared to be killed off on season four when Chambliss and Goldberg took over "Fear TWD" showrunning responsibilities from co-creator Dave Erickson. On season four, episode eight, we see a group of the undead close in on Madison at the stadium where she and her family were living. We never see her death on screen, but it was presumed the herd of walkers killed her.<div type="image" title="madison clark feartwd alive dead" height="601" width="1200" msid="79485114" hostid="261"></div>As one of the lead protagonists of the spinoff, Madison's departure from the series was a shock, especially to the star herself <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/06/11/fear-the-walking-dead-kim-dickens-madison-finale/">who told Entertainment Weekly she was "disappointed" and "heartbroken"</a> when she learned she was leaving the show.Since then, fans have <a href="https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/news/fear-the-walking-dead-season-5-fans-protest-bring-back-madison-clark-kim-dickens/">clamored for her return with a #BringBackMadison campaign</a>. During this year's virtual New York Comic Con (NYCC) in October, when a fan asked Gimple about seeing Madison again, he said "there's some possibilities with 'Tales' and [World] 'Beyond,' but not 'Beyond.'""Tales of <keyword id="952399" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Walking-Dead">the Walking Dead</keyword>" is a <a href="https://www.insider.com/daryl-and-carol-walking-dead-spinoff-show">future "TWD" anthology spinoff</a> which will feature some past, present, and new characters in individual episodes or arcs of episodes. "TWD: World Beyond" is a limited two-season "TWD" spinoff that just wrapped its first season.When Insider asked Gimple about his NYCC comment, he said, "It seems like the only place [Madison] might not pop up is on 'World Beyond' because we're finishing up the story."He added, jokingly, "Watch that's where she winds up popping up." Gimple quickly added, more seriously, "There's a few ideas that are being talked about."That certainly seems to be the case. The sixth season finale of "Fear TWD" hinted the idea of some sort of possibility of getting closure about Madison. Her daughter, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), said she was considering revisiting the stadium where we last saw Madison.That certainly sounds like a way to leave some clues about Madison if she did indeed survive to give fans closure. Dickens previously told MovieWeb that she'd be open to returning as Madison, adding that she would "<a href="https://movieweb.com/kim-dickens-interview-highwaymen-deadwood-fear-walking-dead/">have to sit down and talk about it.</a>"Would you like to see Madison return to the world of "TWD"? Let me know at <a href="https://twitter.com/KirstenAcuna">@KirstenAcuna on Twitter</a>. You can follow <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/the-walking-dead">along with our "Walking Dead" coverage here</a>.

'The Walking Dead' universe chief says there's 'absolutely a chance' fan-favorite Madison will return to the series

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "<keyword id="11911240" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-walking-dead" source="Orion">The Walking Dead</keyword>" season 11 premiere.</li><li>A massive wall of names at the episode's end includes the name "Heath."</li><li>Heath went missing on "TWD" on season seven. He's <a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-what-happened-to-heath-2018-11">presumably with the Civic Republic Military</a>.</li></ul>"<a href="https://www.insider.com/category/the-walking-dead">The Walking Dead's</a>" final season premiere just brought up a name from the past we weren't expecting to see again.Near the end of the premiere, Yumiko, Ezekiel, Princess, and Eugene come across a giant wall full of photos of missing persons from over the years during the zombie apocalypse. <div type="image" title="TWD 1101 Wall of the lost" height="1606" width="2816" msid="85551717" hostid="261"></div>While the main focus is on Yumiko discovering her sister may be alive, eagle-eyed fans may have noticed a familiar name that the show hasn't mentioned in years.Heath.<div type="image" title="TWD 1101 Heath" height="1553" width="2778" msid="85551718" hostid="261"></div>Heath's name isn't just shown once.It can be seen at least twice among hundreds of names. <div type="image" title="TWD 1101 Heath" height="1170" width="2175" msid="85551719" hostid="261"></div>It's not blurry either, making us wonder if there's a chance we could see Corey Hawkins' character make a return on the show's final season.If you missed the small detail or are blanking on Hawkins' character, we'll catch you up to speed.<h2>Who's Heath? A character who went missing on season seven.</h2><div type="image" title="The Walking Dead corey hawkins amc" height="801" width="1200" msid="85551720" hostid="261"></div>One of the original members of Alexandria, Heath was introduced on season six and <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-where-is-heath-2017-3">became more of a background character</a> than an important addition to the group, as he is in the comics.He was one of the few who wasn't afraid to question Rick's leadership and trustworthiness after overhearing that Rick thought some of the Alexandrians were expendable.When Hawkins landed roles in "Straight Outta Compton" and the lead on Fox's "24: Legacy" series, he was quietly written out of "TWD" and his story line was left open-ended.The last time fans saw Heath alive and was on season seven, episode six of the <keyword id="11911241" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="amc" source="Orion">AMC</keyword> zombie drama, bailing on Tara when she was surrounded by the undead.<div type="image" title="Corey Hawkins and Alanna Masterson on TWD season 7, episode 6 twd 706" height="1326" width="2370" msid="85551723" hostid="261"></div>Heath's absence was oddly never addressed by any living character, not even Tara after she made it back home. Frustratingly, Tara never told anyone that Heath went missing and no one ever asked about him. Not even Aaron (Ross Marquand) was curious about the whereabouts of his fellow Alexandrian. It was absolutely bizarre.That's why it was great to see the name pop up on the season 11 premiere. Princess, Yumiko, Ezekiel wouldn't have recognized Heath's name. It's tough to say whether or not Eugene would have recalled him if he noticed the scrap of paper, but Eugene does seem to have a pretty stellar memory. (The guy recalled every zip code he ever lived at without blinking to the Commonwealth auditors.)It would have been so, so satisfying for Aaron to have been at the Commonwealth and to have seen that little scrap of paper with Heath's name on it to tie up a loose end on the show. Who's to say that still doesn't happen?<h2>We know Heath is still likely out there. Showrunner Angela Kang told us Heath was taken by the CRM years ago.</h2><div type="image" title="jadis anne the walking dead 905" height="2000" width="3000" msid="85551725" hostid="261"></div>In 2018, Insider asked Kang whether or not Heath was also taken by the helicopter which whisked Rick away and if Anne traded him to the CRM for supplies."That was kind of the intention that we had in the back of our heads this whole time," Kang <a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-what-happened-to-heath-2018-11">told Insider of whether or not Anne traded Heath to the helicopter people</a>. "Even back in that season where, you know, we had to write the wonderful Corey Hawkins out because he had huge opportunities in the feature film world... those seeds were already set there."For all we know, Heath and Rick have been hanging out together for years.If so, we're sure that was quite the bonding session since Heath didn't seem too fond of Rick the last time we saw him.<h2>Are we about to see Heath? Tough to say, but Gimple and Kang told us they'd love to see Hawkins back.</h2><div type="image" title="corey hawkins" height="2286" width="3048" msid="85551726" hostid="261"></div>The mention of Heath could just be a fun Easter egg, but we're really hoping there's more to it.Various crew members from <a href="https://www.insider.com/walking-dead-what-happened-to-heath-2018-11">Kang</a> to <a href="https://www.insider.com/robert-kirkman-says-walking-dead-has-plans-to-bring-back-heath-2018-10">executive producer Greg Nicotero</a> have told Insider over the years that they'd love to have Hawkins back on the show.When we asked Kang earlier this month if we could see some familiar faces <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-angela-kang-final-season-interview-2021-8">like Heath and Georgie show up on the series' final season, she said</a>, "In any season that we're doing, we do ask ourselves questions like, 'Is it useful to bring somebody back or not?' 'Does that contribute to the story?" Without getting into any specifics, it's something that we consider, but we rarely do. So, that's not to say yes or no. It's more about our process of thinking about it. If it's relevant for the story, then we'll think about doing it."Recently, "TWD" universe chief Scott M. Gimple told Insider in November 2020, "<a href="https://www.insider.com/the-walking-dead-scott-gimple-rick-movie-twd-final-season-interview-2020-11">God knows I'm determined to work with Corey again.</a>"<div type="image" title="TWD behind the scenes season 6 photo" height="2384" width="3600" msid="85551727" hostid="261"></div>In 2017, Hawkins told Collider "<a href="http://collider.com/walking-dead-heath-corey-hawkins-season-7/">there is always a possibility</a>" we could see him return.<a href="https://www.insider.com/robert-kirkman-says-walking-dead-has-plans-to-bring-back-heath-2018-10">At 2018's New York Comic Con</a>, "TWD" creator Robert Kirkman said the following in response to a fan question about Heath, "We are hoping to get [Hawkins] back and tell his story. There are definitely plans in place there. It's just a matter of making sure that everything can line up because it is somewhat complicated."If Heath returned, it would be a great way to set up the first "TWD" movie to find Rick, especially if Heath has been with the same group that also took Rick.Here's to hoping we get to see Heath by the finale.You can <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/the-walking-dead">follow along with our "TWD" coverage here</a>.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>As the coronavirus hit New York City in March, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-wealthy-nyc-residents-went-during-coronavirus-outbreak-nyt-report-2020-5">wealthy city-dwellers fled to the Hamptons.</a></li><li>Luxury businesses followed them out to the East End — as did a wave of social backlash.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hamptons-protesters-with-pitchforks-demand-billionaire-tax-2020-7">Pitchforks-wielding protesters</a> have descended on <keyword id="6393637" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Billionaires">billionaires</keyword>' <keyword id="1737276" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hamptons">Hamptons</keyword> mansions, demanding a <keyword id="46812" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wealth-Tax">wealth tax</keyword>.</li><li>The pandemic is magnifying the <keyword id="6411412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inequality">inequality</keyword> that has always existed in the Hamptons. </li></ul>Former mayor Mike Bloomberg, Martha Stewart, "The Tonight Show's" Jimmy Fallon — name a high-profile New Yorker with money, and chances are they have a vacation home in the Hamptons. A narrow beachfront street in the Long Island enclave has even been nicknamed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hamptons-mansions-billionaire-lane-photos-celebrities-ceos-executives-2020-7">"Billionaire Lane"</a> for its bevy of ultra-wealthy residents, and one Hamptons ZIP code has been ranked the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-zip-in-the-hamptons-tour-sagaponack-2018-8">most expensive ZIP code on the East Coast</a> for the last two years.Every summer, the Hamptons are set abuzz as these city dwellers flock to their summer homes or vacation rentals. Parties at private estates and ritzy <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-ross-hamptons-fundraiser-trump-campaign-raises-millions-2019-8">political fundraisers at billionaires' homes</a> are a staple of the social scene.But this year, as the ultrawealthy came for the Hamptons, so did new levels of social backlash.Nelson Schwartz, author of "<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561374/the-velvet-rope-economy-by-nelson-d-schwartz/">The Velvet Rope Economy</a>" and an economics reporter for The New York Times, said the pandemic has made the ever-expanding divide in the Hamptons even more apparent. "The Hamptons, to me, are ground zero for class differences playing out in the pandemic," Schwartz told Business Insider.<h2>The Hamptons have been getting bougier in summer 2020</h2>While the Hamptons have long been the preferred vacation spot for wealthy New Yorkers, summer of 2020 saw it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/how-the-hamptons-got-even-bougier-in-summer-2020/articleshow/77209973.cms">become even bougier,</a> as Business Insider's Dominic Madori-Davis first reported.The moneyed scene typically arrives over Memorial Day weekend in May, but this year it showed up in March as affluent New Yorkers fled the city because of the coronavirus. At least 420,000 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-wealthy-nyc-residents-went-during-coronavirus-outbreak-nyt-report-2020-5">New Yorkers left the city</a> between March 1 and May 1, primarily from wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods. Many of them went to the Hamptons, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-pay-hundreds-for-mail-to-be-delivered-to-hamptons-2020-4">paying limo drivers to deliver mail</a> to their second homes.It didn't take long for the businesses that serve this wealthy clientele to follow them out to the East End, Madori-Davis wrote.Luxury brands Bergdorf Goodman and Saks started same-day delivery service to the Hamptons. Carbone, the exclusive Michelin-starred Manhattan restaurant known for its $32 spicy rigatoni, launched both a Hamptons pickup service and a pop-up restaurant. Major New York City art galleries opened up Hamptons outposts.<div type="image" title="hamptons art exhibition event party" height="1814" width="2419" msid="77447860" hostid="261"></div>To cater to the affluent <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yorkers-who-fled-to-hamptons-amid-coronavirus-look-at-enrolling-11589972255">families who were considering staying</a> in the Hamptons past the summer season, Avenues, an ultra-exclusive Manhattan private school, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-private-school-opening-hamptons-avenues-2020-5">opened a location</a> in East Hampton — with $48,000 a year tuition.<h2>As the Hamptons' exclusivity factor surged, so did the backlash</h2>While the wealthy may have fled to the Hamptons to escape a virus, they found an unexpected obstacle to their quiet isolation: social revolt.It didn't happen right away. In April and May, as the coronavirus ravaged New York City, wealthy Hamptonites stayed sequestered in their mansions, ordering takeout from Nick &amp; Toni's and picking up seafood at Citarella's.But a wave of social backlash eventually made its way to the Hamptons. <a href="https://www.middletownpress.com/middletown/article/Demonstration-in-East-Hampton-draws-hundreds-of-15339063.php">Black Lives Matter protests in June</a> were followed by anti-billionaire protests in July. On July 1, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/07/01/hamptons-billionaires-car-caravan-protest-targets-east-end-vacation-homes/">more than 300 people showed up</a> outside <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-hamptons-house-photos-2011-7">Mike Bloomberg's $20 million Southampton mansion</a> to demand a <keyword id="6383453" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wealth">wealth</keyword> tax for New York's richest residents. They carried plastic pitchforks and chanted "tax the rich, not the poor."The protesters also stopped by the homes of real-estate developer Stephen Ross and Steven Schwarzman, CEO of private equity firm Blackstone. Some Hamptons homeowners <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-hamptonites-hiring-guards-to-protect-them-from-protesters-2020-7">hired armed guards</a> in fear of the protesters. <div type="image" title="hamptons protest mike bloomberg" height="1661" width="2214" msid="77447862" hostid="261"></div>Alicé Nascimento is the director of policy and research for New York Communities for Change (NYCC), one of the non-profits involved in organizing the protests. She told Business Insider that activists want to pressure New York Governor <keyword id="196530" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Andrew-Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</keyword> to raise taxes on New York's richest residents, many of whom — including Ross —<a href="https://public-accountability.org/report/billionaires-have-fueled-andrew-cuomos-political-career/"> have donated to his campaign</a>. Cuomo recently <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/cuomo-dismisses-calls-to-raise-taxes-on-new-yorks-wealthiest-residents/article_f813df9c-d1cd-11ea-aaaa-3f9f69697d43.html">shot down the idea</a> and has been warning of <a href="https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/cuomo-warns-of-increased-mta-fares-tolls-without-federal-aid.html">transit fare hikes</a> and <a href="https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/08/03/opposing-tax-hikes-for-ultra-wealthy-cuomo-eyes-cuts-to-schools-hospitals/">cutting funding to public schools and hospitals</a>.Nascimento says the first protest in July was mainly people coming from New York City, but then local Hamptons community groups and residents started showing up."It's really local folks who aren't what we traditionally think of [as] people who live in the Hamptons, Nascimento said. "The Hamptons has this stratosphere of extremely wealthy people — like the richest people in the world — and also the ones that are middle class that serve them.At one of the recent protests, Nascimento said, demonstrators had trouble finding the home of billionaire investor and Cuomo donor Daniel Loeb because Hamptons estates are so secluded."Billionaires are experts in social distancing," Nascimento told The New York Post last month. She told Business Insider: "There's a reason why they choose to live out there ... It's hard to find, but that's intentional. It's not an accident."<h2>The Hamptons have long been a tale of economic disparity</h2>While a pandemic and recession may have brought it to the forefront, economic disparity in the Hamptons is nothing new."There's long been a divide between the people who come out to the Hamptons for the summer and those who are out there year round, who live there and work there as teachers, as cops, and work in the restaurants," Schwartz said.This divide traces back to the early days of British colonization of the Hamptons. The early settlers in East Hampton, one of the two main townships on the East End, <a href="https://www.easthamptonvillage.org/DocumentCenter/View/131/History-of-the-Village-of-East-Hampton-PDF?bidId=">divided up the land</a> and allotted themselves each large parcels, East Hampton's historic services director, Bob Hefner, wrote on the town's official website. They shared the resources of the undivided land and created the laws that governed the village.New residents of the town were given small plots of land and couldn't share the resources of the undivided land, according to Hefner. That left, as Hefner wrote, a small group of owners with the prime land within East Hampton, while "the tradesmen, laborers, subsistence farmers, fishermen, and at a later date freed slaves and Montauk Indians, lived on small lots on less desirable land outside the [village]."In more recent years, similar patterns have played out. The lifestyles of Hamptons billionaires are supported by an "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/14/hamptons-super-rich-inequality">army of local people and recent immigrants</a>" who can't afford to live "south of the highway" like their ultra-wealthy clientele, as Rupert Neate reported for the Guardian in 2015."South of the highway" refers to an area <a href="https://outeast.com/stories/south-of-the-highway-hamptons-what-does-it-mean/">south of the Montauk Highway</a> — which runs from Queens through the Hamptons all the way out to Montauk — where you'll find the most prestigious villages and multimillion-dollar beachfront homes.<h2>A microcosm of the tensions playing out in the US during the pandemic</h2>Inequality has always existed in the Hamptons, but it's never been more plainly evident than during the pandemic. "I think it kind of lays bare the class divisions in our society," Schwartz told Business Insider. "A lot of people have withdrawn from the city and from society and gone to their house and pulled up the drawbridge and are kind of isolated in their house. They're going to wait this thing out, which is a privilege the rest of us don't have."To be sure, the Hamptons are not the only wealthy enclave across the US seeing wealth disparities playing out. A similar story is unfolding in areas like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-wilderness-author-inequality-teton-county-wyoming-2020-8">Teton County</a>, the scene of the greatest wealth disparity in the US, and San Francisco, where service-industry workers are losing their jobs while Silicon Valley tech workers get cash bonuses to upgrade their home offices. The pandemic led to a burgeoning backlash against the wealthy all over the world as people stuck at home during lockdown got sick of seeing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/david-geffen-deletes-instagram-after-self-isolating-yacht-post-2020-3">billionaires self-isolating on their superyachts</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/gal-gadot-imagine-celebrities-singing-coronavirus-negative-reactions-video-2020-3">singing "Imagine" instead of donating</a> to coronavirus relief. In fact, in many ways, the conflict playing out in the Hamptons mirrors what's happening on a national scale. "I think it's a microcosm with what happens in our societies where people take private planes, they go to private schools, they have food delivered to their house instead of going to the supermarket — if you can afford to do those things," Schwartz said.Between the start of the pandemic and early June, more than 42 million people lost their jobs, yet <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-got-565-billion-richer-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-6">America's billionaires got 20% richer</a>, growing their cumulative wealth by $565 billion, according to a recent <a href="https://ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza-2020/">report from the Institute for Policy Studies.</a>Nascimento said the <a href="https://makebillionairespay.info/">campaign to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy</a> will continue "as long as billionaires are gouging public resources and subsidies without paying what they owe to the people."Next week, activists are heading to Albany to protest outside Gov. Cuomo's mansion. And while a date isn't yet set for the next protest in the Hamptons, the billionaire playground likely hasn't seen the last of the protesters."They should be expecting to see more of us," Nascimento said.

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