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In addition to Kirkman, Greg Nicotero, Gale Anne Hurd, and David Alpert are executive producers on both projects.įrom the promos, the zombies - sorry, walkers - look a lot less gnarly. However, Fear the Walking Dead will retain much of the creative DNA of The Walking Dead, as they share many of the same producers. Is this related to the original comics at all? There are no plans right now to conflate the two stories, as interesting as that might be.” AMC has ordered a 15-episode second season already, so if this happens, it likely wouldn’t happen for a while. “It would be geographically quite complicated. “I think Scott Gimple would kill me if I ever pitched that idea,” showrunner Dave Erickson said at San Diego Comic-Con. It’s a process of becoming!ĭoes that mean we’re going to see a crossover episode with Rick Grimes?ĭon’t count on it. So instead of waking up to the world already destroyed, everyone is going to watch the world get destroyed. In fact, the six-episode first season takes place in the four to five weeks that Rick lies in a coma during the pilot of The Walking Dead. So all the zombie rules that you learned from The Walking Dead apply here. Is this in the same universe as The Walking Dead? “Being a high-school teacher, doesn’t have a gun, he doesn’t have a sword.” Instead, he will duel the zombies with day planners and an impressive knowledge of Jack London. This is supposed to be about ordinary people rather than badass types like Rick Grimes and Michonne, so it’s going to be a lot less kill shots to the head and a lot more, Why are you walking funny? “What’s great about this show is that they’re everyday people,” said executive producer Greg Nicotero. Curtis has a previous marriage with Liza Ortiz (Elizabeth Rodriguez), with whom he has a son, Chris (Lorenzo James Henrie). Dickens has two kids, a heroin addict named Nick (Frank Dillane), and a daughter with a killer pout, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey). They both have kids from previous relationships. Our main characters are a couple - English teacher Travis Manawa, played by Cliff Curtis, and guidance counselor Madison Clark, played by Kim Dickens - who work in the same high school in Los Angeles when the world falls apart. But there will still be zombies, right? Every person needs a survival guide, so here’s yours to help you navigate the ever-expanding walker universe.Ĭorrect! It’s basically Step by Step for the zombie apocalypse. We wanted it to have its own corner of the universe,” said Robert Kirkman, the creator of the comics and an executive producer on both shows. But save for an extra word in the title, what makes this show different from the original? Turns out, a lot! “One of the things that was really important to us from day one was that this show stand alone - story-wise, character-wise.

Fear the Walking Dead, AMC’s companion show to its monster hit The Walking Dead, premieres on August 23.