"Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Premiere Date Set for IGN Fan Fest 2025"

The much-anticipated Season 2 of *The Walking Dead: Dead City* is set to premiere on May 4, 2025, as revealed exclusively during IGN Fan Fest 2025. IGN provided fans with an exclusive clip and an in-depth interview featuring Scott Gimple, the chief content officer of The Walking Dead universe, along with actors Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who portray Maggie and Negan, respectively, during Day 2 of the event.

Lauren Cohan delved into Maggie's mental state as Season 2 kicks off, sharing, "Sadly not everything is quite as rosy as it could be or seems or one would hope." She elaborated on the complexities of family life in an apocalyptic world, stating, "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 discussed Negan's journey from being a despised figure to a fan-favorite. He explained, "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’s going to try to 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 touched on Negan's iconic weapon, his barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat named Lucille, after his deceased wife. "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 shed light on the upcoming season's conflicts, noting, "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."

IGN also provided a sneak peek of the opening minutes of the first episode of Season 2 of *The Walking Dead: Dead City*, available to watch below.

*The Walking Dead: Dead City* Season 2 will be available to watch on AMC starting May 4, 2025. Make sure to stay updated with all the exciting announcements from Fan Fest 2025.