The Walking Dead season 9 premiere is SO CLOSE! AMC released the official synopsis today along with new key art and character posters. TWD is rebooting…sort of. It’s a fresh start for the show with new showrunner Angela Kang. There is a time jump that takes us about six months after All Out War with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors. The survivors are rebuilding their communities and creating a future for the next generation. But! We know there is always danger lurking.
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Key Art
The key art features Rick (Andrew Lincoln) in his sheriff’s outfit! It’s been a while since we’ve seen him wear that hat. He is standing in front of the corroded capitol in Washington D.C. with Michonne (Danai Gurira), Carol (Melissa McBride), Daryl (Norman Reedus), and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) behind him. The character portraits feature our fearless leader and the people who have followed him to this point in the story. They all look so peaceful, it almost makes me scared of what’s to come.

Synopsis
Last season brought the culmination of “All Out War,” which pitted Rick Grimes and his group of survivors against the Saviors and their cunning leader, Negan. With Negan’s life in his hands, Rick had a character-defining choice in front of him. By making the unilateral decision to spare Negan, Rick upheld the values his late son, Carl, championed in order to build for the future, but created conflict within his group.
Now, we see our survivors a year and a half after the end of the war, rebuilding civilization under Rick’s steadfast leadership. It is a time of relative peace among the communities as they work together, looking to the past to forge the future, but the world they knew is rapidly changing as man-made structures continue to degrade, and nature takes over, changing the landscape and creating new challenges for our survivors.
As time passes, the communities confront unexpected obstacles, danger, and of course, walkers, but nothing quite prepares them for the formidable force they are about to encounter, which threatens the very idea of civilization that our survivors have worked so hard to build.
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Check out the photos below! The Walking Dead returns to AMC on Sunday, October 7.
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