Warning: Spoilers Ahead

Up until now, I really didn’t have an opinion on the new Walking Dead companion series, Fear The Walking Dead, primarily because so little had been released about it. However, with the release of the official trailer for the series today at San Diego Comic-Con, I must admit I’m more than curious.

To be set in Los Angeles, the new series will star Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Maestro Harrell, Alycia Debnam Carey, Frank Dillane and will be executive-produced by Dave Erickson, as well as several members of the production team of The Walking Dead, including Robert Kirkman, Gale Ann Hurd, and Greg Nicotero.

The one thing the trailer does confirm is that this series will serve as a sort of prequel. We will get to see the walker pathogen at its infancy and way before it gets out of control, which is where Rick Grimes finds himself when he wakes up from a coma in the Pilot of The Walking Dead. However, unlike Rick Grimes, these people have no idea what they’re dealing with and really don’t think the afflicted are undead. Instead, they think they’re sick and can be treated.

“They think they’re sick or on something,” Erickson said of society at the onset of the outbreak. “We’re exploring what would have happened during those four to five weeks. How people adjusted to what came down. Tonally, 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-three weeks of the time that Rick was in the coma. We wouldn’t end our finale and cut to Rick coming to.”

Just like the initial season of The Walking Dead, Fear will get 6 episodes in the first season and 15 in the second, broken up in 2 parts. A special Talking Dead will air on October 4th following the season 1 finale, leading directly into the season 6 premiere of the flagship series The Walking Dead.

Check out the trailer below as well as the first photos released. I will be interviewing the cast of the show tomorrow, and so be sure to check back for a more detailed report of what to expect going into the series premiere.

Fear The Walking Dead premieres on August 23rd on AMC.

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