With The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon already on its second season and Dead City set to return in May, fans have been wondering about the future of The Ones Who Live. The limited series brought back Rick and Michonne for a long-awaited reunion, but is there more to their story?
So far, AMC hasn’t announced a renewal, and based on recent comments from The Walking Dead‘s chief content officer Scott Gimple, it sounds like we shouldn’t expect one.
He said: “I mean, the plan was to keep it limited.” Reinforcing the idea that The Ones Who Live was always meant to be a one-off. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of Rick and Michonne.
He added: “Not necessarily never to see those characters again, but to keep it limited. But I always say, you never know.”
The series, starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, follows Rick and Michonne years after they were separated in the main show. Rick, a reluctant prisoner of the Civic Republic Military, is finally reunited with Michonne, and together, they take on the CRM’s questionable plans for rebuilding civilization.
Gimple, however, isn’t shutting the door completely. “There’s so many… I’ve been very careful to not say, ‘Oh, that’ll never happen,’ because it does.
“So you know, there are possibilities. And there’s possibilities of all sorts of strange iterations of shows with those characters and with other characters. So you know, I think it’s entirely possible.”
Lincoln also previoiusly weighed in on the possibility of reprising the role of Rick again at some point in the future, saying: “This, for me, felt that we could comfortably say that that’s done.”
He continued: “That’s a reunion; that’s the perfect iteration of a story that I thought wasn’t gonna happen for a time, and then Danai and Scott both said, ‘We need to reunite, we’ve got to do an epic love story.’
“I went, ‘That’s a great idea – and let’s tell the story of the CRM and do what the grown-ups have been doing’ and maybe some filling in, because I love all of that.“
He went on to say that he’s not counting out a possible return: “I’m a bit of a geek for all of the mythology and what’s going on, what’s been happening. So the short answer is never say never.
“Because if there’s a good enough place to put Rick in, that we haven’t seen before, there are characters out in the universe that I would love to act with again. But it has to be a really, really, really good story.”
We’ll just have to wait and see how things continue to play out in the franchise. While The Ones Who Live might not get a second season, it sounds like this isn’t the last time we’ll see Rick and Michonne in action.
Source: The Direct