New Jersey’s involvement in “The Walking Dead” franchise remains robust with the debut of the limited series, “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.”
The spinoff, teased during the halftime of Super Bowl LVIII, received support from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s (NJEDA) Film and Digital Media Tax Credit program.
AMC, the production company, disclosed expenditures exceeding $68 million in the state for labor, goods, and services during the filming of “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.” Additionally, 469 New Jersey residents were hired as cast and crew members.
“Under Governor Murphy’s leadership, New Jersey continues to serve as a competitive location for filming due to our wide array of landscapes, highly skilled workforce, and attractive tax incentive programs,” said NJEDA Chief Executive Officer Tim Sullivan in a press release. “Popular productions, like The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, are helping support New Jersey’s growing film and digital media sector, as well as our economy, by creating good-paying jobs and supporting small businesses across the state.”
Numerous locations in North and Central Jersey are featured in “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.” Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford serves as a recurring set, while Dobco property in Wayne transforms into the Cascade Mountains. Other filming sites include West Milford, doubling as Yellowstone National Park and Montana’s Norris Geyser Basin, along with Alpine Scout Camp, Bayonne Marine Terminal, Branch Brook Park in Newark, Hamilton Park in Jersey City, Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, Ringwood State Park, and River Barge Park and Marina in Carlstadt. Additional filming occurred in Bayonne, East Newark, Lyndhurst, Passaic, Rahway, and Springfield.
“The Walking Dead sequels utilized a wide variety of locations as backgrounds in this sprawling saga,” remarked New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Chairman Michael Uslan. “New Jersey’s plethora of sites, many of which have never been filmed, provided vivid backdrops for the staging of the many complex action sequences the storylines required.”
