Days after the San Diego Comic Con 2015, AMC has released a new poster for 'Fear The Walking Dead' which will premiere on August 23, 2015. The poster gave a hint what's the series' storyline will be about. And, it is expected that the entire course will be very different than the flagship series, 'The Walking Dead'.
On August 23, 2015, the companion series 'Fear The Walking Dead' airs on AMC. The series is a prequel of the hit series 'The Walking Dead'. But unlike the flagship series, the companion series will not start with the zombie centric episodes right away. In fact, it will show the life before the flesh eating savages dominate the world.
Days after the panel of the series delighted fans and the press at the SDCC 2015, AMC has released a new poster for the 'Fear The Walking Dead', Variety reports. The poster reflects two kids playing basketball as a zombie approaches, set against the backdrop of downtown Los Angeles. The poster also shows how people were clearly oblivious at the start of the apocalypse. The series is going to feature everyday activities before the zombies hit the town.
In fact, showrunner Dave Erickson revealed during the SDCC that 'Fear The Walking Dead' will show the life weeks before the zombie apocalypse happen. As far as storyline is concerned, it will feature more on human and family drama.
"It's incredibly different. Our first season is the shark you don't see. We don't get to full apocalypse until later in the season. It starts as a family drama and we filter the apocalypse through that. It afforded us the opportunity to anchor the show with this family and see how the apocalypse crushes them. There's the ability to watch the fall. ... We get to show the process by which the city goes down. ... This is two to three weeks of the [four to five weeks] that Rick was in the coma. We wouldn't end our finale and cut to Rick coming to," Erickson said.
Meanwhile, 'Fear The Walking Dead' producer David Alpert also revealed to Collider about how the spinoff will be different from the flagship series. He said that the storyline will feature the use and the disadvantages of social and mass media when the zombie apocalypse happened.
He pointed out that "the idea in Fear is that you get some information that is right, but as stuff starts happening, people's social media accounts start to blow up and you're not going to know what is real, what is a stunt. Maybe even you'll ask, 'Are they trying to market something?' So watching the way people absorb information and get wrong information is going to be an essential element of what we explore."
What are your expectations? 'Fear the Walking Dead' premieres Aug. 23 on AMC.
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