The Walking Dead boss says Andrew Lincoln is ‘itching’ to return to movie production as ‘very different’ Rick Grimes

ANDREW Lincoln is counting down the days until he can return to work on The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes spin-off movies.

The British actor has been heavily involved in the production of the films and according to Chief Content Officer Scott Gimple he can't wait to dive back in.

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Speaking to ComicBook.com during one of Comic-Con@Home's virtual panels, Gimple said of Lincoln: "He throws around the football with the rest of us - he's very, very invested in this thing."

He added: "I got to tell you, [Lincoln's] itching to get back, too. We all are," he said.

Gimple stressed that the team were using lockdown to their advantage and had spent plenty of time tinkering with various components of the film.

"We have this extra time now, we have to have it," he went on.

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"So much of what we've been doing is honing and tweaking and experimenting and we're just in the lab with it. And we've been playing around a lot. We were doing that before and now it's forced upon us.

He continued: "We don't know when we would be doing it if everything was finished right now, we just don't know, but we're still in the lab. We're still goofing around with it. We're still playing around with it."

Gimple also spoke out about whether the films would be accesible to those who have never watched the AMC zombie drama.

He stressed that there would be plenty to enjoy for both newcomers and dedicated fans alike.

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"We have to honour people who have invested the time in their lives in the show," he noted.

"But we can't do that at the expense of inviting everybody. I think those things can work together."

Gimple concluded by hinting that the Rick Grimes we see on the big screen would be decidedly different from the leader we saw heading up Alexandria.

"Rick has a history and the history will be present within him and it'll be a big part of who he is, but it's likely going to be a very different Rick that we see as well," he hinted.

The comments come after the boss of spin-off show World Beyond revealed he was left "heaving" over a new kind of zombie that had been rotting for an entire decade.

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We also got a first look at the plot of the season premiere, which is set to track a community haunted by all manner of dark flashbacks.

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The Walking Dead's season 10 finale will air as a special episode on Monday, October 5 on FOX in the UK, with previous episodes available to stream on NOW TV.

In the US, the season 10 finale will air on Sunday, October 4 at 9pm on AMC.