Creators Give an Update on the Rick Grimes WALKING DEAD Movie and Teases It's Connection To The New Series

Since the ceremonious, yet quite open-ended, finale of sorts to the run of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) on The Walking Dead last fall, fans have been champing at the bit to get some info on the promised Walking Dead movie that will hopefully answer the question of what happened to Rick, where he went, who he’s with, how he’s doing now, whether he has answers to the state of the rest of the world, and if he will ever see his family and friends again.

Up to now, we haven’t heard much of anything, except that it was happening, but this week, we at least heard that the creators are working on it, and we are due to hear an update soon. Comic Book was able to catch up with Scott Gimple, the chief content officer for The Walking Dead, at the series’ tenth season premiere, and he had this to say about the project:

"Can't tell you where Rick went. I hate giving this answer because it drives people nuts, but we're close to telling more soon. We've been working really, really hard."

Gimple went on to talk about working on the movie with the series creator, Robert Kirkman:

"Mr. Kirkman is very involved in this and it's been really fun working with him. We work on the shows and stuff, but working on this, just me and him in a room, has been an incredible joy in a really weird perfect way to be working on this tenth year."

The outlet pointed out that the teaser that was released this summer at San Diego Comic-Con had subtle hints for the future, like the fact that the Philadelphia skyline was seen in the background of the series logo. Kirkman commented on that observation, saying:

"That was definitely done on purpose to see if anybody noticed. There's a lot of other little tidbits in that teaser, that if you're real eagle-eyed you can, there's maybe two or three other things that will reveal certain aspects of what's coming up."

Gimple was willing to add a little more on the subject:

"I will say that as Rick took us into the zombie apocalypse, and was our avatar in entering this world, he is going to be our avatar in seeing a much bigger world with a lot of things that have been going on behind-the-scenes, out of our characters comprehension, and so, we're going to discover a whole lot through him, and as there is a little connection to the new show, so people will see some things about the new show and go, 'Wait a minute. What's up there?' So, get ready."

I think most of those who watched what happened to Rick put together the pieces that he went somewhere bigger, obviously, as they have access to helicopters. I’m so excited to see what’s going on with Rick, but also the rest of the country, if not the world. I’ll be keeping an eye out for whatever that info is that we will be getting “soon.” But for now I’m looking forward to Season 10 of TWD on AMC on October 6th.