Fear the Walking Dead

[Goaty]

A new prequel spin-off to The Walking Dead, which takes place in the streets of Los Angeles amid the early days of the infection.

Here's a teaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fal6iObZBE

[Karl Stephan]

Makes sense, if only for the fact that it can't be compared negatively against the comic.

[Tiplodocus]

Makes sense, if only for the fact that it can't be compared negatively against the comic.

??? Don't understand this. I've not heard anybody say the comic is better than the TV show.

[Theblazeuk]

The comic is better than the TV show.

[locustsofdeath!]

The show and the comic both kind of suck, but the comic is better than the TV show.

[Mattofthespurs]

I disgree. The TV show is better than the comic. It's so much more refined in so many ways.

I love the comic, but I adore the TV show.

[Mattofthespurs]

The show and the comic both kind of suck, but the comic is better than the TV show.

Shame. I think you're really missing out. Each to his own though.

[locustsofdeath!]

The show and the comic both kind of suck, but the comic is better than the TV show.

Shame. I think you're really missing out. Each to his own though.

Weeeeell, I both read the comic and watch the show. So I'm not just saying they suck just to say they suck.

The comic book suffers from some very bad dialogue and extreme telling instead of showing (talking heads in a bad way, i.e., characters at times look like they're vomiting word balloons all over the page); it has become extremely repititious and has always suffered from dull, soap-opera-y storylines within the larger storylines. For a while I could overlook all of this for love of a zombie comic but now I just read out of habit and eyeroll most of the time.

The show...eh. I watch it.

[Theblazeuk]

Sadly I am getting closer to Locust's opinion but every now and again it jumps back to the first few arcs, which were great (and better executed in the comic!)

It's all about the Game for me now. Clementine.... LEEEE! *Sob*.

[locustsofdeath!]

It's all about the Game for me now. Clementine.... LEEEE! *Sob*.

Oh yeah, the game is fantastic! The end of the first season was heartbreaking. Some great writing there.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Here's some more info about the show...

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the timeline of this new series, Erickson said, "We are loosely covering the period of time that Rick was in his coma in Season 1. We're able to watch and experience the things that he missed. It's more of a parallel story than a prequel; imagine the opening where Rick gets shot and goes in his coma — that day was probably very close to our Day 1. We're playing out the idea of what was going on in the country and the world until he woke up, stepped outside and it's welcome to the apocalypse. That's why a "companion piece" has been the phrase used at the network. It's not a prequel in the sense of Better Call Saul, where we're jumping back six, seven years. It does tie very specifically into the pilot of the original. 'Prequel' is not the right word; it's kind of its own strange, hybrid thing. I wish I had a better word."

Moving on to the main characters of Fear the Walking Dead, Erickson went on, "It's about a family: Travis just moved in with his girlfriend Madison after they got married. She has two children, one of whom has some issues. Travis has a very pissed-off teenager and an ex-wife. You're talking about two people who, as the story opens, all they want is to bring their family together under one roof and make everyone whole. The irony for us is that the only thing that helps accomplish that is that the world ends. What's intriguing to me is to take these problems, which I think would make for a compelling drama, and put them in this much larger canvas and see how they play out. All of the issues that we establish, these are the things that in my head will come to fruition in Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 6. It forges an interesting introduction into this world. It's much more about the "shark" you don't see in Season 1. We obviously play some of the tropes — and there are definitely walkers — but it's people trying to wrap their brain around what the hell is going on and not fully understanding the zombie apocalypse by Act 1. It's going through that process of the colleague or the friend you had coffee with the day before is now trying to kill you. And your first thought's going to be, 'They're sick, they're on something.' It takes a bit of time for everyone to wrap their brains around what this truly means."

At present the first season has been confirmed as just six episodes, although a second season has already been ordered by AMC. On the likelihood of expanding the second year to include more episodes, Erickson suggested, "I would imagine the network has a very specific plan. I think thirteen is a great number; fifteen, sixteen, it's really a question of having the time to sit down and make sure we're not burning story to burn story; that we're able to build something that's layered and textured and compelling. I think it's a safe bet that if things go well, they'll probably want more rather than less, but I'm not sure what that number's going to be."

Set in Los Angeles, Fear the Walking Dead will star Cliff Curtis as Travis, Kim Dickens as Madison, and Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Nick and Alicia, Madison's children. Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason will also feature in the show.

Fear the Walking Dead will debut on AMC later this year, with a UK home has yet to be confirmed at this stage.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Reminds me of some of the promos they had for one of the earlier seasons where they showed alternative preludes based on other people who weren't in the series.

Yet, one of them was about the very first walker (or Crawler!) Rick after he returned to the Armoury. He had found her before, dragging only the top half of it's body through some park after he escaped from the hospital and returning location to offer her mercy killing. She was moving that slowly, (Reminds me of a MacDonald's worker. that she was easy to track and find.

n the promo, she is still alive and with two teenage children (I think!) before she is forced to sacrifice herself for them and let them get a head start as they flee the neighbourhood.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Apologies if my description sounded a bit dark there......

Here is some actual background information found

Days Gone By - Hannah

Here's the video itself!

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Those were the webisodes that were placed between seasons. They're already on the forum, around the time they aired, if I remember correctly.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I just found this...it's parody film clip taken from well known scenes from the original series using Queen's Another One Bites the Dust.

TWD VS Q'S AOBTD