Hopefully.

Andy sure is getting attention in Aussie land while filming Penguin Bloom. Between set stills and fans being lucky enough to get pics with him the interwebs has been bustling with photos of him

While I am happy for him I do want him to hurry up and finish this movie so that he can put his boots back on and get his Python back from Judith

 

Yeah, I hope the first of these films come out soon... and there is a tie in with TWD at some point. Otherwise, TWD as a TV show will be tarnished by the bizarre way "Rick" left the world.

 

Since these movies are going to be released into the theaters, and they haven't even begun filming yet we're probably not going to see the first one until 2021.

 

TWD was tarnished when Carl died.

AMC should've focused on quality instead of squeezing every cent it can out TWD.

 

And that is only if they start filming probably within the next six months. If we get to the end of season 10 and we still have no news about these movies you can probably start moving that back another year......I know people on here don't like my pessimistic attitude about the franchise these days but I truly am starting to think these movies aren't ever going to happen.

 

I wasn't happy with how everything went at the end with Gimple, so I quit the show after Rick's departure. Recently after hearing good things about Season 9 I caught up. I was able to watch it with a clean slate and enjoyed it a lot. If I had kept watching at the time I don't think I would've had the same reaction because I was so bitter. So I can relate to what you're saying.

 

That's the key point for me though, the scope of the movie. Since they decided to go for a theatrical release I'm thinking they want to wow people a bit with the scale of it instead of just doing a TV movie and putting it in theaters. For a one and done they could do it, but if they're looking to draw an audience back for a trilogy they'll need to provide a little more.

 

It's not about how quickly they can film. THe big concern about this project is that we have heard virtually nothing about it ever since it was announced about a year ago. In this day and age of the internet generally when they are in the process of working on something you tend to hear things about it. As of now though we havn't even heard who is even going to be in these supposed movies. If they were anywhere close to starting the filming process we would have already heard who was going to be in the movies a long time ago. If we don't hear any news within the next couple/few months you can pretty much count 2020 out as a possibility.

And if we go another year without hearing anything well then I think it will then be time to assume these movies aren't going to happen at all. It happens all the time where potential movies get announced and then nothing comes of the project and it wouldn't be surprising at all for this to happen to this announcement given that TWD isn't doing as well as it used to.

 

Well at NYCC this weekend all they said regarding these movies was that people 'might' here something about them in the next month or two.

 

@Neuropyramidal the ratings for the season 10 premiere were all the way down to 4 million. THese movies aren't going to happen. If they tried to make a Walking Dead movie they would be looking at about a 30-50 million dollar box office return at this point.

These prospective movies are why the ratings still matter for TWD. When the ratings for the show continue to decline like they have it doesn't make it look like a worthwhile investment to spend the type of money they would need to in order to make quality TWD movies.

 

I'm glad you feel that way. Unfortunately though in the movie business when you go long stretches without hearing anykind of news that often means the project is on hold. If things were running along smoothly with these movies we would be hearing news about casting and filming dates. When they announced these movies the ratings were about twice as good as they are now and likely when they started planning these projects out the show was still getting 10-12 million viewers.

 

We havn't heard news about the movies. All we have heard is Gimple continuing to say what the movies would potentially be like. He can talk about that kind of stuff all he wants but that doesn't mean the project is officially green lit. Hearing news about casting and filming dates would be significant. Gimple saying what the movies would be like is not. All that tells us is Gimple still has the movies on his mind (which he should since he is in charge of overseeing the entire TWD universe).