'Fear the Walking Dead' News, Update: New Promo Images and Teaser Revealed Ahead of SDCC 2015

The excitement is getting more intense for AMC's upcoming small screen offering, "Fear The Walking Dead," with the arrival of new image stills and a teaser video which offered some fresh perspectives about the cast of "The Walking Dead" spinoff series.

The report from Entertainment Weekly showcased a handful of exclusive new photos, with the first featuring Alycia Debnam-Carey's character. Alicia is seen standing among the empty bleachers of her high school. She looks like she's wondering where everybody is. Has the apocalypse already begun by this time?

The next pair of photos meanwhile shows Madison (Kim Dickens) and her boyfriend, Travis (Cliff Curtis) looking a bit so pensive.

Executive producer Dave Erickson said that the characters of the show will be introduced going on with their normal, daily lives before the proliferation of the undead beings.

"Ultimately, it's a family drama," he told Entertainment Weekly. "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."

Meanwhile, the latest promo trailer for the premiere episode of the show was released by the network ahead of the San Diego Comic Con 2015 event in San Diego. See the video below.

"Fear the Walking Dead" hits AMC this August.