THE WALKING DEAD Spinoff Has Finished Filming The Pilot
For some, the yearly calendar is divided between a new Walking Dead season and waiting for the new Walking Dead season to start. Those fanatics will be pleased to know that the Walking Dead spinoff has completed filming.
Is it titled Fear the Walking Dead? Or is the pilot episode titled Fear the Walking Dead and the show will be called something else? No one is sure at this point, but regardless of what The Walking Dead spinoff is called, it has finished filming its pilot. Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd shared to the audience in attendance at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film & Television Hollywood Masters lecture series, Hurd revealed that filming was completed on February 6th. However, she added that AMC has not yet picked up the show to series. Hurd also shared as a spinoff of televisions' most watched program, it's hard to imagine AMC passing.
The cast for the spinoff includes Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam Carey. Adam Davidson is directing the pilot. A release date has not been confirmed but the show is expected to air sometime in 2015. The spinoff is thought to be a prequel which recounts the early days of the zombie epidemic and the fall of civilization.
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