WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE: #FearBeginsHere this Sunday at 9/8c. But just what can fans expect from the much-anticipated “Walking Dead” spinoff?
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Were a long way from Halloween 2010, when Rick Grimes first awoke on television screens across America in The Walking Dead, where he found himself in a world overrun by zombies that he himself was initially unprepared to face. Showrunner Dave Erickson teased that the characters will try and fail to stab the zombies’ skulls in the spin-off, because their bodies are much hardier. “The point was it’s hard physically to kill somebody”, he said.
Fear the Walking Dead will take viewers back to the start of the zombie apocalypse in Los Angeles. What not a better place to show civilization break down.
In 2008, The Walking Deadexecutive producer Gale Anne Hurd had no reason to believe that the zombie drama would ever be anything more than a cable TV curiosity. Weve been hearing about and waiting for Fear The Walking Dead for quite some time, now, but the wait is nearly over. Fear reportedly doesn’t shy away from engaging with party politics, although it is careful not to take any particular side.
Like the flagship series, which enters its sixth season in October, it starts out centered on a family. But unfortunately, there are no plans to directly cross over the two shows anytime soon.
For Johnson though, getting in character “was nearly like second nature”.
“No one’s going to college…no one’s doing anything they think they are”, he says, during a talk in Madison’s office. The character previously worked with Jenner at the CDC before being infected and ultimately killed. And Los Angeles has been through a lot, and it’s really interesting to see things, because obviously we think of San Andreas and other natural disasters that could befall here, but we’ll be seeing firsthand how a particular extended family copes or is unable to cope from the very beginning. “When we have two narratives living under the same umbrella mythology, the instinct would be to bring those two stories together and to conflate them”. If we put a zombie on the subway will people continue to use their iPhone while the person next to them is lunch?
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“We never tell the story from the perspective of the CDC or the generals or the politicians”. “It’s not World War Z“. We will see the effort to stop the contagion, the effort to contain it. We’ll do it consistently through our family’s filter, but, yeah, absolutely. She begins to notice dead figures in the park and on the streets, but are they just homeless people? If you like The Walking Dead I highly recommend grabbing some popcorn and a friend for Fear the Walking Dead.
