All-New TWD World Will Be Shaped by the Audience Through Live Interactive Streams Hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown and Felicia Day Exclusively on Facebook Watch and Instant Game Featuring New Daily Story Content on Facebook Gaming
July 11, 2022 – LOS ANGELES, CA and NEW YORK, NY – Skybound Entertainment and Genvid Entertainment today announced that the Facebook exclusive The Walking Dead™: Last Mile (TWD:LM) begins its four month run with new story content that will unfold daily. Fans can observe, explore and impact a constantly evolving virtual world set in the TWD universe – influencing the story at every turn and ultimately helping to shape TWD canon.
The story begins with the first episode of Yvette Nicole Brown’s weekly interactive live stream on Facebook Watch that airs at 4 p.m. PT today, where she’ll be joined by Felicia Day to set up the story and explain how viewers can help impact the survivors’ journey. Throughout TWD:LM’s four-month run, Brown and Day will host regular livestreams highlighting the big moments that propel the TWD:LM narrative forward, discussing the story with special guests, and revealing key decisions made by the audience in the Instant Game. In addition, Day will stream herself playing the TWD:LM Instant Game alongside the rest of the community at special times. Day's streams will also feature instant viewer polls and more.
The TWD:LM Instant Game (available entirely free via Facebook Gaming with no downloads/ installs) also launches in open beta today to begin the four week Prologue. TWD:LM is an experience designed to be shaped by the fans, and the Prologue sets up the story to come while providing an opportunity for collecting and implementing fan feedback. This will be followed by a two-week hiatus where development will focus on feature expansion and general gameplay polish. The story then kicks into high gear with three four-week “Acts” that will air consecutively through mid-November, resulting in one of the most epic storylines within The Walking Dead universe. The Instant Game provides continuous access to the TWD:LM world and its inhabitants, allowing viewers to create their own survivor, earn Influence Points through mini-games and activities, and then bid those points on decisions large and small, impacting the story as it happens.
“The Walking Dead: Last Mile is a bold and exciting new expansion for TWD,” said Robert Kirkman, Chairman of Skybound Entertainment and creator of the The Walking Dead. “Throughout the history of TWD, characters are forced to make hard choices with serious consequences. For the first time in TWD:LM, fans will make those choices together, as a community. The results will not only change the fate of those characters but also their future in the franchise.”
You can access the press kit here.
About Skybound Entertainment
Established in 2010, Skybound is a multiplatform content company that engages with creators and their intellectual properties to create cool stuff and deliver one-of-a-kind experiences to fans. Skybound extends their stories across platforms including comics, television, film, video games, tabletop, books, digital content, audio programming, and beyond. The company is home to critically acclaimed global franchises including The Walking Dead, Invincible, Superfight, and Before Your Eyes.
The company maintains key partnerships across the entertainment industry including Universal Pictures and Image Comics, holds a first look development deal with Audible, and has engaged an ongoing strategic business partnership with mobile games publisher and developer 5th Planet Games (OAX: FIVEPG).
For the Skybound Games division, capabilities include publishing, production, and global distribution for video games across all genres, including the multi-million unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. Skybound Games is also a strategic global marketing and distribution partner of Striking Distance Studios for the highly-anticipated survival-horror game The Callisto Protocol.
For the most up to date information on Skybound, please visit the company on Twitter (@Skybound), YouTube (Skybound), Facebook (@SkyboundEntertainment), Instagram (@skyboundent), and at www.skybound.com.
About Genvid Entertainment
Genvid Entertainment, LLC is a subsidiary of Genvid Holdings, Inc. and the first publisher devoted to bringing massively interactive live events (MILEs) to market. Combining globally renowned brands with best-in-class development, production and marketing, MILEs are a new category of audience driven, worldwide, live events that offer immersive stories with the viewers instantly influencing the world and characters in ways big and small to help decide the outcome and shape canon.The Walking Dead: Last Mile is Genvid’s next MILE, launching in summer 2022. A number of additional MILEs involving major comic book, TV/film, and video game franchises are currently in production, launching over the next two years, with more to come.
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For press information please contact:
Genvid Entertainment:
Garth Chouteau (garth@genvid.com / 415-602-8147)
Skybound Entertainment:
Alex Armour (aarmour@skybound.com / 760-815-9109)
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