THE Walking Dead’s boss has hinted Michonne WILL return to screens after season 10 – in the Rick Grimes movie trilogy.
Actress Danai Gurira is set to leave the hit AMC series at some point in the second half of season 10, which returns this weekend in the US.
But after a successful turn as Okoye in Marvel’s Black Panther, The Hollywood Reporter’s ‘TV’s Top 5’ podcast suggested to show boss Scott M Gimple that Danai had to appear in the Rick Grimes movies.
Host Lesley Goldberg said: “She’s a movie star after Black Panther, she has to participate in these – she’s as big of a draw, if not more so, than Andrew Lincoln at this point.”
Scott replied: “Oh yeah, absolutely. You just laid it out. I would say, even if she happened not to be a movie star, that would be the case.
“I remember sitting in Black Panther at the premiere and watching her as Okoye and sort of sinking into my chair and being like, ‘Oh my God… Danai’s a movie star’.
“I think she blew away everyone on the screen. She’s always blown us away, but she was our little secret with 17 million people. Now the secret’s out.”
While Scott didn’t confirm Michonne would be in the Rick Grimes movies, his comments certainly seem to hint she could make an appearance on the big screen.
Scott previously spoke about the Rick Grimes movie trilogy, telling Entertainment Weekly: “We’re going to proceed to inform Rick’s story, and we’re going to uncover a lot of the world by means of that story. “Rick can be challenged in numerous ways in which, in some methods, every little thing that he’s been by means of has form of ready him for.
“It’s a a lot bigger world than one which he had been working in, and that was difficult in and of itself. “Now issues are heightened, and simply as we’re going to the flicks — and it’s the films correct, suitably extensive display screen — we’re going to be filling that display screen with a model new world.
“The scale is larger and the price range is larger, and it’s The Walking Dead, however heightened, each within the narrative themes, but additionally in simply what we see onscreen.”
