Carol and Daryl are leaving France behind and moving to Spain for the next chapter of their adventures in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3.
Produced by AMC Networks and directed by Daniel Percival and Paco Cabezas, the new season premieres Sunday, September 7, 2025, on AMC and AMC+.
Season 3 follows Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) as they continue their journey to somehow return home and to the ones they love. But the road ahead isn’t easy — the path takes them farther astray, leading them through distant lands with ever-changing and unfamiliar conditions as they witness the various effects of the Walker apocalypse.
Joining Reedus and McBride this season are Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, and Alexandra Masangkay as series regulars. The cast also includes Candela Saitta, Hugo Arbués, Greta Fernández, Gonzalo Bouza, Hada Nieto, Yassmine Othman, Cuco Usín, and Stephen Merchant, amongst others.
Filming for Season 3 took place across Spanish locations including Galicia, Aragón, Catalonia, and Valencia, each offering a unique backdrop for the post-apocalyptic world. We’re incredibly proud of our talented Ánima Stillking crew, whose hard work, craftsmanship, and creative excellence helped bring this gripping story to life.
And there’s more — AMC has also confirmed that the series has been renewed for a fourth and final season. Production has begun in July in Spain, with the eight-episode season set to film in and around Madrid, Castilla La Mancha, País Vasco and Castilla León among others.
Executive producers for Season 3 include Scott M. Gimple, Showrunner David Zabel, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Greg Nicotero, Brian Bockrath, Angela Kang, Jason Richman, Dan Percival, Steve Squillante, and Silvia Aráez and Jesús de la Vega from Ánima Stillking.
The heart of Madrid saw an unexpected invasion by a walker apocalypse as filming kicked off in September for the highly anticipated third season of the acclaimed “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” franchise.
Our Spanish team at Ánima Stillking has joined the production, bringing years of their local expertise to the project as The Walking Dead universe returns to Europe to continue the saga of Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) as they struggle to find their way back home.
With the third season both set and produced in Spain, the country’s appeal as a filming location extends beyond the iconic capital. Plans include shooting across Galicia, Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia to capture the unique and varied landscapes that complement the show’s moody, survivalist aesthetic.
PRODUCTION POWERHOUSE AND POOR THINGS CO-PRODUCER STILLKING FILMS JOINS FORCES TO LAUNCH SPANISH PRODUCTION ARM ÁNIMA STILLKING
Stillking Films, the production company that has co-produced over 150 feature films and television series including Poor Things, Spaceman, and We Were The Lucky Ones, has teamed up with global production company and industry peer Twentyfour Seven, to launch Málaga based, Spanish production outfit Ánima Stillking.
Ánima Stillking will be overseen by CEO Silvia Aráez, former CEO of Fresco Film, Executive Producer María Cabello, whose credits include Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Black Mirror and Sony’s The Blacklist; and CFO Cristina Armario, previously CFO of Fresco Film.
In addition to its Málaga base, Ánima Stillking has fully staffed offices in the Canary Islands, Barcelona, Madrid, Basque Country and Palma de Mallorca.
ÁNIMA STILLKING already has a busy slate including several projects in production with Netflix, a major anthology series for AMC, and has been bonded by Film Finances for a feature film now in production.
Silvia Aráez says “We all come to the table with our own extensive backgrounds: myself, María, and CFO Cristina Armario having worked as producers on many international films in Spain including managing tax rebates. We feel strongly about our capabilities, together with Stillking and Twenty-Four Seven, we are even stronger in partnership with each other as demonstrated by the exciting slate we have already started to build”
Ánima Stillking’s specialties include overseeing all aspects of production, local tax rebate structuring, pan-European finance options, location services and an extensive roller-deck of local production and Government contacts.
Led by CEO Matthew Stillman and head of production David Minkowski, Stillking’s network spans Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Serbia, and with Ánima Stillking will now offer its first Mediterranean outpost in Spain.
TwentyFour Seven is a bespoke service production company with a number of bases worldwide, including Santiago, Madrid, Warsaw, Buenos Aires and the Dominican Republic. It specialises in co-producing branded content, music videos, commercials and feature film.
Silvia Aráez says: “We are comfortable within a wide range of budget options having worked alongside studios and streamers as well as independent producers”.
María Cabello said: “We can adapt to any kind of financial structure or situation. There are a lot of independent projects happening now in our industry, especially after the strike, and we’re encountering a lot of projects that are looking for solutions for how to finance their productions. We can offer them the specific solutions that they are looking for, using all the tools at our disposal in our country and with knowledge of all the relevant laws at play.”
Stillking’s David Minkowski adds: “What’s exciting to me is the community we’ve built. We are a network of filmmakers with a very personal, hands-on way of working. Between all of us at Ánima Stillking, we have decades of experience, so if you work with us you’re going to work with a new company, but not with people who are new to the business. You’re coming into a stable, reliable, professional environment full of people who know exactly what to do to make your project a success.”
