'Fear the Walking Dead' News, Update: Executive Producer Reveals Meaty Details About AMC 'Companion Series'
"Fear the Walking Dead," AMC's highly anticipated companion series for "The Walking Dead" is currently filming in Vancouver and is set to hit the small screens this summer.
Executive producer David Erickson spoke with The Hollywood Reporter to reveal some meaty details about the upcoming show. He reiterated the idea that the forthcoming series would tackle the events that took place during Rick Grime's coma.
"We are loosely covering the period of time that [The Walking Dead's] Rick (Andrew Lincoln) was in his coma in season one," Erickson said. "We're able to watch and experience the things that he missed."
Given the fact, FTWD won't be what the fans were once led to believe, a prequel. Instead, it would be much like of a "parallel story" which could see the group catching up with Grimes and company.
"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," he explained.
Additionally, Erickson teased, this time in an interview with Yahoo TV, that Travis (Cliff Curtis) and his people would call the zombies a different name.
"The names that we'll play with are kind of specific to what our characters experience as the story begins. Which is, if it seems to be a virus, it's a contagion, are they infected? It will be in that world at first, and then I think it will approach something a little bit more apocalyptic. That will coalesce as the season plays out," the executive producer said.
"Fear the Walking Dead" is slated to debut on AMC later this summer.
