FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Will Eventually Catch Up with the Original Series
As you all know by now, Fear The Walking Dead is set much earlier in the zombie apocalypse timeline than the original series. This new show is set during the time when the apocalypse just starts. Thanks to an EW interview with Robert Kirkman, we’ve learned that the timeline of this new series will eventually catch up to the early seasons of The Walking Dead. Here’s what the creator of the series had to say:
“I will say that it will definitely progress. I will say that I don’t consider this show to be a prequel to The Walking Dead, because there will be a point where a certain episode of this show will line up with season 2 of The Walking Dead, and a certain episode of this show will line up with season 3 of The Walking Dead. So we will be progressing through time to the point that we do pass the initial days of the outbreak. But how fast it is that we get there? That’s just going to have to remain a mystery.”
When talking about the zombie outbreak, Kirkman says that it will “happen very organically,” as in it it will be a slow process, and that it won’t hit all at once. He explains:
"It would be happening for a while behind the scenes. In pockets of civilization, there would be news stories that didn’t really make sense and didn’t seem connected. And that’s kind of where we pick things up. There are a lot of things on the news, there’s a lot of chatter and paranoia and concern. And yet the vast majority of the population is ignoring these things and talking about their daily lives, and that’s kind of where we pick things up. And things ramp up very quickly from there.”
I think this is going to be a fascinating series for Walking Dead fans to watch. I like that we have no idea what’s coming, and that there’s no comic book that it’s directly based on for us to compare it to.
I also included three images from the series for you to check out as well.
