Stars Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride shared their excitement about the news at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.
Clémence Poésy, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi and Anne Charrier also star in the TWD spinoff.
The AMC series will be set in France and will premiere this fall.
Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprise their roles from the original series. Gaius Charles and Zeljko Ivanek also star.
His schedule prevented him from getting surgery to repair them.
Are you ready for a TWD road story? Groundhog Day with walkers? A musical story? This anthology co-created by TWD vet Channing Powell has all of those and more.
She played Lori Grimes on the first three seasons of the flagship series.
It is described as "an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world."
Five other newbies have also been cast in the upcoming spinoff.
A summer of walkers is headed your way.
The actor best known for his role as Merle Dixon in the popular AMC series has not been having an easy time of it.
Walking Dead star Steven Yeun leads the star-studded voice cast as Grayson.