The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan to star in their own spinoff: Isle of the Dead

The Hollywood Reporter

The Maggie and Negan actors will lead the six-episode fifth spinoff in The Walking Dead franchise, with longtime writer Eli Jorné serving as showrunner. Isle of the Dead follows Negan and Maggie exploring a post-apocalyptic New York City. “This is a very big day for the expanding universe we are building around The Walking Dead,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “It not only adds another compelling series to this collection, it extends our storytelling around two unforgettable characters fans have grown to love, hate or hate and then love in Maggie and Negan, brilliantly inhabited by Lauren and Jeffrey. It also lets us explore a corner of this universe located on the island of Manhattan, with an iconic skyline that takes on a very different meaning when viewed through the lens of a zombie apocalypse.”