‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Trailer: Maggie Takes Negan’s Bat in Battle for Manhattan (VIDEO)

Kelli Boyle March 20, 2025, 12:15 pm

The fight for control of Manhattan is on in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 trailer, above. AMC released the all-new trailer on March 20 that shows Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) back onscreen together, and this time they’re both using Negan’s iconic bat.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows fan-favorite characters Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) as they travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. In Season 2, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.

The first teaser trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 dropped during New York Comic Con 2024 on Friday, October 18. This sneak peek included photos of new characters played by Sons of Anarchy‘s Kim Coates and Orange Is the New Black‘s Dascha Polanco.

Here’s all there is to know about the upcoming season.

When does The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 premiere?

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 premieres on Sunday, May 4, at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.

Who’s in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 cast?

Cohan and Morgan return as Maggie and Negan, respectively, and Gaius Charles will be back as Armstrong, with Željko Ivanek as the Croat. Coates and Polanco join Season 2 in new roles. Coates plays Bruegel, leader of one of Manhattan’s fiercest gangs. Polanco plays Major Lucia Narvaez.

'TWD: Dead City' Team Talks Negan and Maggie, Lucille, and More in Season 2

Additional new characters include Jake Weary as Christos, Keir Gilchrist as Benjamin Pierce, and Pooya Mohseni as Roksana. Mahina Napoleon, Jonathan Higginbotham, Trey Santiago-Hudson, and Charlie Solis will also be back in the second season.

Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons, serves as showrunner and executive producer on the series, along with Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe, Cohan, Morgan, Brian Bockrath, Michael Satrazemis, and Colin Walsh.

Is there a trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2?

See walkers be used as renewable energy to power Manhattan in the first two minutes of Season 2 released in February 2025, below.

The NYCC teaser trailer can be seen below. In it, the lights of Radio City Music Hall and seemingly all of Manhattan come back on as Negan says, “Thank you all for coming. I guess you’re in for a bit of a shock. You see, power equals power.” He’s bouncing his signature barbed wire bat in the clips. Maggie is seen looking concerned, as is everyone else glimpsed in the teaser.