FEAR THE WALKING DEAD's Timeline Will Eventually Catch-Up With The Original Series

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
Filed Under: The Walking Dead
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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ThedamnBatman
ThedamnBatman - 6/6/2015, 5:24 AM
I've yet to watch a single episode of this series, maybe I should start with the spin off first?
Minty
Minty - 6/6/2015, 6:19 AM
@aXe - Couldn't tell you man, I haven't watched it since Season 2 ;) It is a good show though, just haven't had the time. Seeing as the spin-off's first season's only 6 episodes long, that might be a nice starting point?
Darkseider
Darkseider - 6/6/2015, 6:32 AM
I love TWD. Season 2 is slow & kinda boring but man does it pick up. Just keeps getting better & better. Michonne is my girl! She is one bada$$ b!+©#
antman8o8
antman8o8 - 6/6/2015, 6:42 AM
So they are planning to have this show go on too? I thought it'd be just the 6 episodes leading up to events of the first season. Interesting.

Ghostyy
Ghostyy - 6/6/2015, 7:39 AM
@aXe Unless this catches up with the original series by the end of the season, you shouldn't have any problem watching this.
StaticShock86
StaticShock86 - 6/6/2015, 9:05 AM
When does this show come on, all I have heard is that it's this summer. Now I read late summer, does anyone know an exact date?
Calculon
Calculon - 6/6/2015, 10:08 AM
I still don't get what this show has to offer? It'd be interesting to see the outbreak, but after that, what can they do that hasn't already been done with TWD?
PhoenixKC
PhoenixKC - 6/6/2015, 10:24 AM
Very excited. I wish they would stop keeping us in the dark. A premiere date would be much appreciated.
ThedamnBatman
ThedamnBatman - 6/7/2015, 7:01 AM
@Minty @Ghostyy

I dunno, as far as zombies go, my favourite is Shaun Of The Dead, I'm not really in to the living dead genre, but people keep telling me to watch this so, I dunno. I might give the spin off a chance, as there aren't a lot of episodes to begin with

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