Former Walking Dead star Danai Gurira will soon return to the franchise as a star of one of the many upcoming spinoffs. Though The Walking Dead is coming to an end with the conclusion of its eleventh and final season, the universe will continue to expand for some time to come. Various spinoffs are currently in the works, and among them is a miniseries focusing on Michonne (Gurira) and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), the former lovers who'd been separated during the show's ninth season.

For a new profile on Gurira for Self, Walking Dead producer and writer Scott M. Gimple reveals how heavily involved she is with her spinoff, which she says will be a "prestige miniseries." She is serving as a co-creator and writer for the show alongside Gimple, allowing her to put her own creative touch on how Michonne's story will end. Gimple explained how the writing process has been with Gurira and he finds it to be satisfying with the ways in which they challenge one another.

“She challenges me, I challenge her, and neither one of us lets the other off the hook,” he says. “In life, I’m more a character actor; Danai is a lead. When we’re working, when we’re pitching, when we’re just dealing with life stuff—it’s a good combo.”

He added, "[She's] incredibly creatively ambitious. [Danai] wants to do new, signature work—stuff that isn’t out there currently. She doesn’t want to settle in any way. It’s the best creative energy to be around.”

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The Rick and Michonne Spinoff Will Be a Love Story

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It was previously reported that the plan for the untitled Rick and Michonne spinoff was for it to last six episodes. That follows the initial idea of developing the story as a trilogy of feature films. We can presume the miniseries will finally reunite the two lovebirds as Gurira previously teased that it's a love story of the most epic proportions.

"There's a spinoff that is coming out that we're in pre-production," she said. "We're having a great time. It's a lot of work though, a lot of work. Well it's an epic love story. It's a love story between Rick and Michonne, as we know that they were together and got separated. So this is that story, that journey between the two of them with a very raging world around them."

A release date hasn't been set for the Rick and Michonne spinoff series. Meanwhile, more of Daryl Dixon will also be explored with a separate spinoff on the popular survivor, and another limited series will follow Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). There's more Fear the Walking Dead in the works as well, and self-contained stories set in that world are also explored through the anthology show Tales of the Walking Dead.