The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Premiere Release Date Confirmed – IGN Fan Fest 2025

Get ready, *The Walking Dead: Dead City* fans! Season 2's premiere date was exclusively revealed at IGN Fan Fest 2025: May 4, 2025. IGN treated viewers to an exclusive clip and interviews with Scott Gimple, chief content officer of *The Walking Dead* universe, Lauren Cohen (Maggie), and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan).

Cohen offered a glimpse into Maggie's mindset entering Season 2: "Sadly, not everything is quite as rosy as it could be, or seems, or one would hope," she explained. "My son is still a teenage boy, and there are these natural tensions of navigating family life. And I’ve got Ginny in my care, a teenage girl. So there are very relatable domestic dynamics playing out alongside the apocalyptic world—trying to eat, stay safe, and sleep. That’s where we find ourselves before another big bad thing happens."

Jeffrey Dean Morgan discussed Negan's precarious position: "We find Negan very much under the thumb of The Dama and The Croat, on unfamiliar ground," he said. "He’ll try to flip the script, of course, but he’s in a place he’s not enjoying. At the season's start, he’s struggling. He’s always scheming, trying to get on top, but he’s in a tough spot."

Morgan also reflected on Lucille, Negan's iconic barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat: "The Lucille of it all…what can I say? I love that thing! It’s the only prop I’ve ever enjoyed carrying around. It brings back fond memories—not for Lauren!"

Gimple teased the Season 2 conflict: "There’s no single big bad. There’s a lot of shifting in the power rankings. It isn’t all antagonistic; it’s more complex, more political, and then we get kinda physical."

IGN also shared the opening minutes of Season 2's premiere episode (see below).

*The Walking Dead: Dead City* Season 2 premieres on AMC May 4, 2025. Don't miss the rest of the announcements from Fan Fest 2025!