Ian Hultquist (Dickinson, Assassination Nation, Rosaline, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Night Teeth, One of Us Is Lying, Good Girls) is scoring the upcoming AMC original series The Walking Dead: Dead City. The show is the first sequel to the original The Walking Dead series (scored by Bear McCreary in its first seasons and co-scored by McCreary & Sam Ewing in later seasons) and stars Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Karina Ortiz, Zeljko Ivanek, Jonathan Higginbotham and Mahina Napoleon. The drama follows Maggie & Negan as they are traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. Cohan & Morgan are also executive producing the AMC Studios production with showrunner Eli Jorné (Heels, Wilfred) and Scott M. Gimple & Brian Bockrath (Fear of the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond).The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere on June 18, 2023 on AMC and will also be available to stream on AMC+.
Hultquist’s other upcoming projects also include Hannah Marks’s feature Turtles All the Way Down starring Isabela Merced.
