Clémence Poésy & Adam Nagaitis Be a part of Norman Reedus In ’The Strolling Useless’ Spinoff – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Clémence Poésy (The Essex Serpent) and Adam Nagaitis (Chernobyl) are set as leads reverse Norman Reedus in The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon, AMC’s spinoff from its flagship drama. This marks British actor Nagatis’ return to AMC the place he beforehand starred in The Terror.

Set after the collection conclusion of TWD, the Reedus-led offshoot finds the zombie apocalypse fan favourite transported throughout the Atlantic to France and a complete new degree of a world gone mad.

Contemporary actor Poesy will play the feminine lead Isabelle, a member of a progressive spiritual group, who joins forces with Daryl (Reedus) on a journey throughout France and finds herself confronting her darkish previous in Paris. 

Nagaitis protrays Quinn, a displaced Brit who has change into highly effective in post-apocalyptic Paris as a black marketeer and the proprietor of the Demimonde, a horny underground nightclub. 

Initially supposed to star fellow TWD alum Melissa McBride alongside Reedus, the spinoff noticed the actress exit the mission in April. Virtually concurrently, TWD showrunner Angela Kang shifted from being the showrunner on Daryl Dixon to an EP, and longtime ER showrunner David Zabel was introduced on board.

The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon, set to premiere subsequent yr, follows earlier spinoffs Concern The Strolling Useless, Strolling Useless: The World Past and the latest Tales of the Strolling Useless. There are two extra new spinoffs within the works centered on massively standard characters from the mothership collection: New York-set The Strolling Useless: Useless Metropolis starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffery-Dean Morgan reprising their Morgan and Negan characters, respectively, and the opposite centered on the Rick and Michonne characters, performed by Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira.

The Strolling Useless concludes its eleventh and closing season on November 20.

Poésy could be seen starring as Stella Ransome in Apple’s The Essex Serpent. She additionally portrayed Francoise Gilot in Genius: Picasso. Her current movie credit embody Tenet, Resistance and Past the Horizon. She’s repped by Agence Adequat in France, DO Mgmt, United Brokers within the UK and MGMT Leisure.

Nagaitis is understood for his roles as Cornelius Hickey in The Terror and as Vasily Ignatenko on HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries. His most movie credit embody Gunpowder Milkshake and The Final Duel. He’s repped by Curtis Brown, Verve, Nameless Content material and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.