Fear the Walking Dead will premiere on AMC later this month, and now fans waiting for more Walking Dead action are learning more about the new series. Those involved with the series teased some new details about Season 1 and the already planned Season 2 at the TCA’s , and Spoiler TV shared the scoop with both tweets and comments straight from the panel.
Fear the Walking Dead will consist of six episodes, and the period covered by the first season has been revealed. The action will take over a three-week period. David Erickson revealed how the timeline connects with The Walking Dead , according to Entertainment Weekly .
“By the end of season 1, we definitely know the world has changed, but we’re not at the same place where Rick woke up. There’s still a window of time, we’ll have some real estate left. Rick’s coma was about 4 to 5 weeks. If you track our story, we probably go three weeks over the course of our first season. There is a time that may come that we catch up, and there may be a season where we do a major time cut. The thinking right now in season 1 and the writers’ room for season 2 isn’t about how do we intersect them how or catch up with the original show?”
Rick waking up from his coma started The Walking Dead . He was in his coma for a period, and the zombie outbreak had already started. Fear the Walking Dead will show those first days after the outbreak began, and fans will see how first responders and the military handle the situation. The cause of the outbreak will not be revealed during the season.
Spoiler TV also shared some tweets from others at the panel, and they give some more information. Jarett Wieselman is a writer for Buzzfeed .
#FearTheWalkingDead is about 4-6 wks behind #TheWalkingDead & may eventually catch up, time-wise, but there are no crossover plans #TCA15
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) July 31, 2015
By the end of #FearTheWalkingDead ‘s 6-ep 1st season, chars know the world has changed, but story’s nowhere near the time Rick awakes #TCA15
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) July 31, 2015
“The fact that our audience knows more than our characters is part of the fun in telling the story,” #FearTheWalkingDead EP says #TCA14
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) July 31, 2015
Erickson also spoke about the difference between The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead . People will need to deal with people they once knew and knew well falling ill and becoming zombies because of the outbreak. Daily Dead shared his comments.
“They look, for all intents and purposes, human. Your instinct is not going to be, ‘That’s a zombie, I have to kill it!’ It’s going to be, ‘That’s my neighbor, that’s my friend, that’s my colleague who I had coffee with yesterday and something’s wrong with them, I want to help them. I’m gonna call 911. I can’t get 911 because the circuits are busy.’ It becomes this process of discovery. And then when you actually do have to do violence to someone to protect yourself, to protect your family, and you do have to kill, there’s an emotional toll, there’s a psychological toll.”
AMC has already revealed that Fear the Walking Dead will consist of 15 episodes and production on that season will start in November or December.
What do you think? Are you excited for Fear the Walking Dead ? AMC will premiere the new series on August 23.
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