"Walking Dead: Dead City S2 Premiere Date Set for IGN Fan Fest 2025"

Excitement is building as The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 gears up for its premiere on May 4, 2025. This eagerly anticipated release was exclusively revealed at IGN Fan Fest 2025, where fans were treated to an exclusive clip and in-depth interviews with key figures from the series, including Scott Gimple, the chief content officer of The Walking Dead universe, along with actors Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie, shared insights into her character's mental state as Season 2 kicks off. "Sadly, not everything is quite as rosy as it could be or seems or one would hope," she explained. Cohan elaborated on the challenges Maggie faces, saying, "My son is still a teenage boy and there are these natural tensions of navigating just family life. And I’ve got Ginny in my care and she’s a teenage girl. And so there are very relatable domestic dynamics that are playing out as we come back in Season 2, on top of this apocalyptic world and trying to eat and stay safe and sleep. That’s where we find ourselves before another big bad thing happens."

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, portraying the fan-favorite character Negan, discussed his character's current situation. "We find Negan very much under the thumb of The Dama and The Croat, and on some ground he’s not real familiar with," he revealed. "He’s going to try flip that script, of course. But he’s in a place that I don’t think he’s enjoying very much. At the beginning of the season we find him having a hard time with all of it. He’s always scheming and trying to figure out how he can get on top of the situation, but he finds himself in a hard spot."

Morgan also fondly reminisced about Negan's iconic weapon, the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire named Lucille. "The Lucille of it all, what can I say?" he said. "I love that thing! But I as an actor, that’s the only prop I’ve ever had my whole life I enjoy carrying around with me. It brought back very fond memories for me. Not for Lauren!"

Scott Gimple provided a sneak peek into the season's overarching theme, stating, "There is no single big bad. There’s a lot of shifting as far as the power ranking for this season. It isn’t all antagonistic. It’s a little more complex like that. It’s a little more political. And then we get kinda physical."

Fans can catch the opening minutes of the first episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 right here on IGN. Mark your calendars as The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 premieres on AMC on May 4, 2025. Stay tuned for more updates from IGN Fan Fest 2025.