Fear The Walking Dead Showrunner Calls New Show a “Family Drama”
Love them or hate them, zombie films, shows, and media are everywhere. But you could argue that the most popular one is The Walking Dead, which not only has a mega successful comic, but a hugely popular TV show on AMC. Soon, there’s going to be a spinoff TV series called Fear The Walking Dead, and many are wondering what the focus of the show will be. Will it be on the original outbreak of the zombie virus that caused the world The Walking Dead is now in? Or will it follow the style of the show/comic and be about the characters (the living ones) who inhabit this world? Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Fear the Walking Dead showrunner Dave Erickson said this about the upcoming spinoff:
“Ultimately, it’s a family drama. One of the things that Robert [Kirkman] and I discussed from the very beginning was, we’re starting a little earlier in the apocalypse. And what that allowed us to do in the pilot and season 1 is establish our core family, establish the problems and the conflicts that they have, and really let that be the initial world that we live in. And we layer in the onset of the apocalypse, we layer in our first walkers, but it’s really an effort to exacerbate the problems that already exist with Kim Dickens’ character and Cliff Curtis’ character and their sort of dysfunctional blended family. It’s really filtering the apocalypse through that.”
Fear The Walking Dead arrives this August on AMC.