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San Diego (USA) – "The Walking Dead" fans at San Diego's Comic-Con, one of the world's biggest pop culture celebrations, said goodbye to sheriff Rick on Friday. Grimes, star of one of the most popular series of American television.
A string of stars of the series " The Walking Dead " and its spin-off " Fear the Walking Dead " were present Friday in this city of California, on the west coast of the United States, and British actor Andrew Lincoln has confirmed the rumors, inadvertently attested by producer Robert Kirkman.
" It will be my last season playing the role of Rick Grimes ", announced in front of several thousand people, Andrew Lincoln whose character has almost missed any episode in the eight seasons preceding.
The official confirmation of his departure was therefore reserved for this gathering, the great annual convention of followers of superheroes or characters of comics, which attracts every month of July some 100,000 people, many of them dressed costumes developed.
" I love this series, it's all for me, I love people who make this series, I promise not to cry, I cried enough on the screen " , quipped the 44-year-old actor.
Based on a BD of the same name created by a trio of writers, including one of the producers of the television program, Robert Kirkman, the post-apocalyptic series that depicts the United States become a land of living dead met a crazy success.
Between 2013 and 2017, the series ranked at the top of the 18- to 49-year-old audience for any American television program. It also has the largest total television audience in the history of cable TV in the United States.
– Ninth Season in October –
The plot of the series – which debuted in 2010 on the cable channel AMC– focuses on Rick Grimes. Waking up in the hospital after being shot at, he finds himself alone in a world where human beings are transformed into undead, " the marchers ".
" I'm a little moved, I've been here for nine years ," Andrew Lincoln told reporters after his last appearance for " The Walking Dead " at the Comic -Con San Diego.
" I love this place and I love seeing fans, and you've been such an essential part of my experience, but my relationship with Mr. Grimes is far from over ", he dropped.
Impossible to say if the actor was referring to the filming of his last episodes at the moment, the possibility of appearing in one of the many franchised projects or something completely different.
At Comic-Con, AMC released a nearly six-minute trailer of the ninth season showing Rick in a much less hectic time, leading a survivor camp, but with emerging tensions with his lieutenants.
Disguised or not, fans in San Diego and around the world will have to wait until October to discover the sheriff's latest season on their small screen.
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