Fans of *The Walking Dead: Dead City* have a thrilling update: Season 2 is set to premiere on May 4, 2025, as revealed exclusively at IGN Fan Fest 2025. The announcement came with an exciting exclusive clip and an insightful interview featuring Scott Gimple, the chief content officer of The Walking Dead universe, along with Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who portray Maggie and Negan respectively.
Lauren Cohan shed light on Maggie's mindset heading into the new season, stating, “Sadly not everything is quite as rosy as it could be or seems or one would hope.” She elaborated on the complexities of family dynamics in a post-apocalyptic world, saying, “My son is still a teenage boy and there are these natural tensions of navigating just family life. And I’ve got Ginny in my care and she’s a teenage girl. And so there are very relatable domestic dynamics that are playing out as we come back in Season 2, on top of this apocalyptic world and trying to eat and stay safe and sleep. That’s where we find ourselves before another big bad thing happens.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan discussed Negan's journey, who has transitioned from a despised figure to a fan-favorite. He revealed, “We find Negan very much under the thumb of The Dama and The Croat, and on some ground he’s not real familiar with.” Morgan added, “He’s going to try flip that script, of course. But he’s in a place that I don’t think he’s enjoying very much. At the beginning of the season we find him having a hard time with all of it. He’s always scheming and trying to figure out how he can get on top of the situation, but he finds himself in a hard spot.”
Negan's iconic weapon, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire named Lucille after his deceased wife, also got a mention. Morgan expressed his affection for the prop, saying, “The Lucille of it all, what can I say? I love that thing! But I as an actor, that’s the only prop I’ve ever had my whole life I enjoy carrying around with me. It brought back very fond memories for me. Not for Lauren!”
Scott Gimple discussed the evolving dynamics of conflict in Season 2, stating, “There is no single big bad. There’s a lot of shifting as far as the power ranking for this season. It isn’t all antagonistic. It’s a little more complex like that. It’s a little more political. And then we get kinda physical.”
To give fans a taste of what's to come, IGN also released the opening minutes of the first episode of *The Walking Dead: Dead City* Season 2. Mark your calendars for May 4, 2025, when *The Walking Dead: Dead City* Season 2 premieres on AMC. Stay tuned for more updates from IGN Fan Fest 2025.
