{"id":109391,"date":"2019-08-07T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=109391"},"modified":"2019-08-07T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:00:49","slug":"the-walking-dead-spin-off-series-casts-nico-tortorella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-spin-off-series-casts-nico-tortorella\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead spin-off series casts Nico Tortorella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMC&#8217;s upcoming\u00a0<em><strong>The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>spin-off series has cast Nico Tortorella in a leading role, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/08\/the-walking-dead-third-series-nico-tortorella-star-cast-new-spinoff-amc-1202661133\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The actor will be playing a character called Felix, who is described as an honourable man of his word who isn&#8217;t afraid to fight for others&#8217; safety and acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Tortorella is an American actor and model, and is known for roles in\u00a0<em><strong>Scream 4<\/strong><\/em>, FOX drama series\u00a0<em><strong>The Following\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and TV Land comedy-drama series\u00a0<em><strong>Younger<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0In real life, the actor identifies as bisexual and genderfluid, and is an active LGBTQ+ advocate.<\/p>\n<p>The new series will follow the first generation to come of age in the zombie apocalypse set into motion by\u00a0<em><strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>. According to the synopsis, &#8220;some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tortorella joins a cast already made up of\u00a0Annet Mahendru as Huck, Aliyah Royale as Iris, Alexa Mansour as Hope, Nicolas Cantu as Elton and Hal Cumpston as Silas.<\/p>\n<p>The new series, which was co-created by Scott Gimple and Matt Negrete, is set to premiere on AMC in the spring of 2020. Both Gimple and Negrete will serve as showrunners and Jordan Vogt-Roberts (<em><strong>Kong: Skull Island<\/strong><\/em>) will direct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled\u00a0<em>Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>spin-off series will premiere on AMC in the US in spring 2020. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walking Dead&#8217;s upcoming spin-off series has cast Nico Tortorella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":109392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[4232],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/download.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}