Filming of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 is currently underway in Brockton, Massachusetts, and a new star has been cast as a series regular in the person of Aimee Garcia. Garcia was most recently seen on small screens in Criminal Minds: Evolution for its third season, playing neuropsychiatrist Dr. Julia Ochoa. Fans will definitely also remember her as Ella Lopez in Netflix’s Lucifer, as well as Jamie Batista in Showtime’s crime drama Dexter.
As for her role in the next season of The Walking Dead spin-off, news just broke that Garcia will play Renata, “a disarmingly charming leader with a natural ability to win people over with her optimism and convivial personality.“ Dead City was renewed for Season 3 in July 2025, and at the time, it was announced that franchise vet Seth Hoffman was taking over as showrunner. Production on the new installment will progress to Boston later this fall.
The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the characters of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has been cut off from the mainland for a long time. In Season 2, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, viewers saw Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.
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The Walking Dead: Dead City is the first sequel to the original Walking Dead TV series, and the fifth series in the entire franchise. Eli Jorné created the spin-off for AMC, with Jorné serving as showrunner for the first two seasons before departing the show and being replaced by Hoffman. In addition to Cohan and Morgan, who reprise their roles from the original show, Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek, Mahina Napoleon, Lisa Emery, Logan Kim, Dascha Polanco, and Keir Gilchrist also star in the sequel.
Dead City premiered on June 18, 2023, and consisted of six episodes, concluding on July 23, 2023. That same month, the series was renewed for a second season, which ran from May 4 to June 22, 2025. Season 3 is executive produced by Hoffman, Scott Gimple, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Dave Alpert, Brian Bockrath, and Colin Walsh, alongside series stars Cohan and Morgan.
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