'The Walking Dead' News, Rumors: Spinoff Series Titled 'Fear The Walking Dead'
The long untitled "The Walking Dead" spinoff series has gotten itself a title. It is now officially called "Fear the Walking Dead." Aside from a title, the new series also aired its first trailer after the season five finale of "The Walking Dead."
The trailer which was aired on AMC hinted that Los Angeles will be hit with something big. Another report in the Business Insider says that the new series may just reveal the origins of the zombie apocalypse, something that the original series did not touch on. The report says that the trailer hints at "a flu-like virus" that started the whole thing and that this may have happened while Rick Grimes was comatose.
The new series has the comic book creator Robert Kirkman as one of the show's executive producers, together with Dave Erickson, Gale Hurd and Dave Alpert from "The Walking Dead" and special effects man Greg Nicotero. The series pilot was written by Kirkman and Erickson and will premiere late summer of 2015.
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"Fear the Walking Dead" is set in Los Angeles, but will be shot entirely in Vancouver. The cast, as earlier confirmed, will include Cliff Curtis as teacher Sean Cabrera, Kim Dickens as Nancy Tompkins, a school guidance counselor who has two teenage kids, played by Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam-Carey. Teacher Sean Cabrera also has a teenage son named Cody Cabrera. Both adults are single parents who are left to deal not only with family problems but also with the coming zombie problem that their town will face.
The new series was earlier touted as being a prequel of the original series, which means a new storyline that was separately developed from the comic book series. The Forbes report cites that this may bode well for the new series, allowing the producers and writers to make something "truly character-driven," unlike what they did in the original series.
