FEAR THE WALKING DEAD's Timeline Will Eventually Catch-Up With The Original Series
Despite being initially set much earlier than its sister show, Fear The Walking Dead's timeline will eventually catch-up with the early seasons of The Walking Dead. This news came from executive producer Robert Kirkman, who had plenty more to tease about the spin-off...
By Minty -
Jun 06, 2015 06:06 AM EST
Source: EW
Most people had pegged AMC's Fear The Walking Dead series to be a 'prequel' of its immensely popular sister show, The Walking Dead. However, the spin-off's executive producer and original creator Robert Kirkman has always insisted on calling it more of a 'companion series'. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kirkman explained that this was because the show's timeline would eventually catch-up with the early seasons of The Walking Dead:
“I will say that it will definitely progress. I will say that I don’t consider this show to be a prequel to The Walking Dead, because there will be a point where a certain episode of this show will line up with season 2 of The Walking Dead, and a certain episode of this show will line up with season 3 of The Walking Dead. So we will be progressing through time to the point that we do pass the initial days of the outbreak. But how fast it is that we get there? That’s just going to have to remain a mystery.”
Fear The Walking Dead is still initially set much closer to start of the zombie outbreak, and is set to recount the events that followed it (while Rick Grimes was in his coma). Kirkman also revealed that the outbreak "would happen very organically" - as opposed to breaking out all at once:
"It would be happening for a while behind the scenes. In pockets of civilization, there would be news stories that didn’t really make sense and didn’t seem connected. And that’s kind of where we pick things up. There are a lot of things on the news, there’s a lot of chatter and paranoia and concern. And yet the vast majority of the population is ignoring these things and talking about their daily lives, and that’s kind of where we pick things up. And things ramp up very quickly from there.”
Judging from what Kirkman had to say, it's possible that the spin-off will move steadily through the early days of the apocalypse, before picking up the pace in order to line-up with The Walking Dead's timeline. This may not happen for a while though, as the show received a two-season commitment from AMC. Fear The Walking Dead will premiere late Summer 2015. Are you excited?
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