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Noooo! Maggie, we need you!

This new report about “The Walking Dead” star Lauren Cohan (the currently pregnant Maggie Greene Rhee) may just be smoke with no fire. Deadline does not say that she’s definitely leaving … because there’s confusion about what’s happening at all.

TWD is halfway through airing Season 8, but they finished filming it toward the end of 2017. AMC already OK’d Season 9, with a new showrunner, and filming is expected to start when it usually does — late April/early May.

However, now we have to wonder whether Maggie will not be part of the storyline. Here’s the deal:

Deadline says Lauren Cohan has been fielding pilot offers for the 2018-2019 TV season. They say she’s a big draw — as you can imagine — and she’s had about half a dozen offers so far. So is she leaving TWD for another show, or is this part of her negotiation tactics?

Deadline also said Cohan was asking for more money, parity with Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes) and Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon). That was reportedly brought up by her team, but not made a make-or-break requirement, because she realizes Lincoln and Reedus started on the show a season before her and tend to have more scenes. Deadline said AMC offered her a “modest salary increase” in exchange for a longterm contract, but that was rejected — which they added is standard practice as part of negotiations.

Here’s where the question marks begin in Deadline’s report:

“What happened next is a little murky. I hear the network did not follow up with a new proposition and there have been no further talks. Cohan, who is contractually free and clear to entertain new offers, has been doing that, with her availability igniting a feeding frenzy in the form of a string of offers from multiple networks. She reportedly has been engaging, taking pilot meetings.

According to other sources close to the situation, there are active talks with Cohan who has not indicated that she would not be coming back for Season 9, which already has been greenlighted.”

So she’s taking pilot meetings and feeling out her options, but also keeping the door open to return to TWD? It may just be that she’s letting AMC know she’s in-demand, using that to leverage a better deal. That would be smart. What would they even do if she left while Maggie was still pregnant, with such a huge comic book story ahead? Sure, “The Walking Dead” is no stranger to major changes from the source material, but after what they just did to Carl, could TWD even afford another massive change?

It would suck so much to lose Cohan on “The Walking Dead,” so if this is coming down to salary and not other factors, please just SHOW HER THE MONEY.

“The Walking Dead” returns Sunday, Feb. 25 at 9 p.m. on AMC.

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All’s fair in love and war, and we should see a bit of both in “The Walking Dead” Season 7 finale.

Season 7 is putting itself out of its misery ending this Sunday, April 2 with an emotional supersized finale. We should expect some death. According to AMC’s synopsis for Episode 16, “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life”:

“The stakes continue to grow higher as paths cross; the group enacts an intricate plan.”

We know the plan is to use the guns Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) just got from Oceanside and use them to take down Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors, with help from any members of the Scavengers, Hilltop, Kingdom, and Oceanside who are willing to jump in. (Plus Dwight.)

Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene Rhee) teased what’s ahead to Harper’s Bazaar:

“You’re certainly in for a lot of emotion,” she says after having a quick rhetorical debate with herself over whether or not to go as far as calling the finale “poetic.” Eventually, she lands on describing it as “incredibly bittersweet, beautiful, and heartbreaking.”

Greg Nicotero directed the Season 7 finale, and recently told Entertainment Weekly:

“I think it’s one of the best scripts that we’ve ever produced, just in terms of pure character arc. And it really sums up the trajectory of the second half of the season perfectly. A lot of the questions, and a lot of the things that we spent time cultivating over the first half of the season and the second half of the season, definitely come to a head.”

Nicotero had previously told ComicBook.com of the finale:

“It’s an amazing script. It was written by Scott [Gimple] and Angela [Kang] and Matt Negrete. How can you get along with those three? It’s everything that you would ever want. It’s thrilling. It’s emotional. It’s powerful. Everything that’s — when our show fires on all cylinders, you can’t stop it.”

The two photos shown above are from Episode 16, including Eugene (Josh McDermitt) and Negan. Keep an eye on what’s behind them, as it may be important.

After this episode, TWD will be done until Season 8 starts in October. They should begin filming for Season 8 in early May, as usual.

“The Walking Dead” finale airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC.

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Hell hath no fury like a pregnant, pissed-off Maggie in “The Walking Dead” Season 7.

Maggie (Lauren Cohan) was having a bad day even before she ended up watching the love of her life bashed to bits in “The Walking Dead” Season 7 premiere. She got a haircut — haircuts are cursed on this show, nothing good follows a haircut — then felt sharp pains in her stomach. Rick Grimes and the group were taking her to Hilltop when everything happened with Negan, Abraham, and Glenn.

We saw Rick go through several stages of breaking down, and Norman Reedus said Daryl never forgives himself for Glenn’s death, and loses his fight. But Lauren Cohan told Entertainment Weekly that Negan’s actions “light this crazy fuse” in Maggie that we see in her from this point forward. She may be too ready to fight.

Here’s part of what Cohan told EW about Maggie’s future:

“I think it’s very Glenn that she gets up and insists on taking his body and she wants to protect him and give him a funeral that he deserves and that overcomes all the inhibition. And so Negan gives Maggie vengeance, and I don’t think that she’s a vengeful person, but It’s going to be a really interesting push and pull this season. You’ll see how she lives on in honor of Glenn and in vengeance of Negan, and it’s a real war in her brain, and in protection of the baby. I really liked the fact that Glenn says, ‘I’ll find you,’ because she takes him with her. It’s difficult to even encapsulate the grief like that.”

That “I’ll find you” — and the dream sequence of the future, and Rick saying Glenn was “our family too” — that nearly killed us. Maggie has lost people before, but losing Glenn like that … it’s too much.

I feel so bad for Maggie… #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/Ba2TN8rKDk

— The Walking Dead (@TheWalkingNews) October 27, 2016

It will be interesting to see how she balances this anger and need for revenge with her other need to stay calm and healthy and protect the baby growing inside of her. She can’t just run out and attack Negan, even if she was the first one ready to fight back.

“Walking Dead” comic book fans know Maggie’s story from here, and it does seem like the TV show plans to keep her on the path to Hilltop, but we don’t know what other “remix” twists might be in her future. Sasha joining her is a twist, since Sasha is not in the comic. On TV, they are both grieving lost loves, and we left them on the way to Hilltop, where we have to hope the community embraces them and doesn’t blame them in any way for the failure to defeat the Saviors.

Sasha was so strong in the premiere she lost Abraham but was able to make the decision to help Maggie ❤️ #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/0xyGdRTD2F

— H E A T H E R (@TWD_Fangirl17) October 26, 2016

Here’s more from Cohan to EW on the Maggie/Sasha bond:

“It’s a really interesting spiritual journey that she goes on. Sasha and her are gonna be incredibly tight and they really need each other, and they really lean on each other. Within all the drive and the violence that the group has to perform and to undergo, there is going to be honor to our fallen.”

We haven’t forgotten how Maggie and Sasha bonded back in Season 4, when Sasha and her other lost love, Bob, joined Maggie in the search for Glenn. These women just can’t catch a break with loved ones, but at least they are still surviving, together.

“The Walking Dead” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on AMC.

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