Spinoff news:
"The highly anticipated Walking Dead spinoff has cast its lead. Although AMC hasn’t confirmed any casting, Variety reports that Cliff Curtis will star in the series, which will explore the same zombie outbreak occurring on The Walking Dead, just in a different location with different characters. The show is currently untitled and only has a pilot order from the network, but given that The Walking Dead is the most popular show on TV, it’s fairly likely that the spinoff will be picked up as a series.
Curtis is a New Zealand native best known for the movies Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, The Last Airbender, and Blow. He’s also been on the TV shows Body of Proof, Trauma, and Missing. Curtis is of Maori — an indigenous ethnic group from New Zealand — descent, and he often plays characters of a variety of ethnicities, including Latinos and those from the Middle East. Though, again, there’s no official information from AMC or Sons of Anarchy’s Dave Erickson, who’s been tapped as the showrunner for the spinoff, the website TVLine says that Cliff’s character is a Latino named Sean Cabrera and is described as “a good man trying to do right by everyone in his life.”
The publication also provided the descriptions of the other characters. Cabrera’s son, Cody, is described as being smart, rebellious, and angry. The lead female role will be single mom Nancy Tompkins, who “looks like the girl next door, but there’s an edge to her.” Her son, Nick, is a slacker who’s too old to be living at home and yet remains stuck there, while his ambitious sister, Ashley, loves her family but knows she must get out on her own. Andrea Chapman is described as an aging hippie who moves to the edge of town to deal with a failed marriage."
