'Fear the Walking Dead' News, Update: Showrunner Dave Erickson Talks Travis and Madison's Relationship
The anticipation is already building up as the premiere date of AMC's upcoming TV drama series "Fear The Walking Dead" draws near.
But before the "Walking Dead" companion series debuts, Fear executive producer Dave Erickson shared some essential details on the leading characters, Travis and Madison, played by Cliff Curtis and Kim Dickens, respectively.
The executive producer revealed that would-be fans of the series will find that the two are "not married yet." Travis is "divorced" and Madison's "first husband passed away several years ago."
"The idea is they have the quality of soul-mates," Erickson told Entertainment Weekly. "They met each other, they're strong for each other, they complement each other in the best way."
"What I love about that is that it's taking this very fundamentally sound relationship and then seeing how the apocalypse changes that. Seeing how our personalities begin to evolve as time passes in the face of this. I think they're very understanding of each other's flaws, and what's interesting is to take the normal complications that exist in a good relationship and then put them under intense strain and see how each of the characters react," he continued.
Talking about the show's setting, the showrunner further talked about how Los Angeles played an important role in the exposition of the story.
"It is a city of change, it's a place where people come to either start new or to distance themselves from their pasts, and that's the case for a lot of our characters. It's interesting to see individually, but also interesting to see in terms of relationship and family how those established identities begin to fracture and begin to change," Erickson explained.
"Fear The Walking Dead" is bound to tell the events on the early days of the zombie apocalypse in TWD. According to earlier reports, this occurs while Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) is still in a coma.
Besides Curtis and Dickens, the series is also set to feature the acts of Alyscia Debnam-Carey as Madison's daughter, Alicia, as well as Frank Dillane's Nick, Madison's son.
