Greg Nicotero Explains Location Change

The favored Strolling Lifeless spin-off, Daryl Dixon, has switched places for its upcoming third season, and The Strolling Lifeless senior producer Greg Nicotero has defined why. On the finish of Daryl Dixon season 2, the title character, alongside Carol, ditches France and decides to journey to London.

Daryl Dixon acts because the fifth spin-off of The Strolling Lifeless. The present’s third season will premiere September 7, 2025, on AMC, and also will be obtainable to stream through AMC+. Daryl Dixon stars Norman Reedus within the title function, and in addition stars Melissa McBride, who was a part of The Strolling Lifeless‘s most important forged.In Season 3 of The Strolling Lifeless spin-off, Daryl and Carol do find yourself in London, however the principle setting of the season is Spain. In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Owen Danoff, Nicotero revealed that the concept for Daryl Dixon is to set it in a unique nation every season. That is to make sure the sequence appears like its personal factor. Take a look at Nicotero’s feedback beneath:

ScreenRant: “How did you all land on Spain for this? Was there ever one other nation within the operating, and even simply staying in London? As a result of even that first episode is de facto visually fascinating.”

Greg Nicotero: “Effectively, I feel it was about midway by means of season one, once we had been in France, that the concept of getting Daryl be extra cell got here up. I bear in mind considering, ‘Wow, that’s an ideal thought; each season [could] be a unique nation, and we might actually unfold our wings round all of Europe.’ We spent 15 years of the present in Alexandria and in Georgia, and with the ability to see what the reset could be as soon as the zombie apocalypse occurs in France or in Spain. I do suppose at one level we talked about perhaps there being a whole season in London. I do know Eire got here up at one level, and I feel the considering was, ‘Effectively, it’s actually inexperienced there,’ and we didn’t need it to really feel too much like The Strolling Lifeless in Georgia the place inexperienced was in all places. So we made acutely aware choices to discover places that we felt had a variety of wealthy materials [and] tradition to mine, and we’re speaking hundreds of years of tradition, which actually was thrilling to us.”

What This Means For Daryl Dixon

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The primary two seasons of Daryl Dixon occurred in France, nevertheless, Nicotero implies in his ScreenRant interview that no season will happen in the identical location because the final once more. It looks as if the present is changing into an anthology of kinds, however with solely the placement altering as a substitute of the overarching story.

Daryl Dixon’s first season premiered on September 10, 2023

Spanish actors Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, Alexandra Masangkay, Hugo Arbués, and Candela Saitta have joined the principle forged for Daryl Dixon season 3. This means that the season will possible precisely depict Spanish tradition. The present may additionally revisit some outdated Strolling Lifeless plot factors.

Daryl and Carol in post-apocalyptic London in The Walking Dead Daryl Dixon season 3 — Daryl and Carol in post-apocalyptic London in The Strolling Lifeless Daryl Dixon season 3

The truth that Daryl Dixon will now happen in a unique nation every season is thrilling and recent. It form of appears like an thought impressed by The White Lotus, however in a unique type of method, for the reason that central characters will keep the identical in Daryl Dixon season 3.

Nonetheless, this strategy will assist lure in additional viewers, particularly worldwide TV followers. Daryl Dixon is a very promising Strolling Lifeless spin-off, due to this fact, attempting new approaches will assist it stand out even additional.