Fear The Walking Dead: 10 Things to Know About the Zombie Spinoff
Jim Halterman at . Updated at .6. Cinematic Inspirations Aplenty
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Erickson explained the creatives watched films like the 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: "I think the goal was to create a different kind of tension and try to extend that and we’ve structured in a way that are characters are somewhat insulated from what’s really going on outside throughout much of the season."
7. Race Relations
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Producers were asked about the fact that a certain race is notably killed off. "We have an incredibly diverse show and a diverse cast," said Erickson, promising a balance of victims overall. "I think, by its nature, it's a zombie apocalypse and people die. So if the majority of our cast is Latino, black, Asian…people are going to get bit. People are going to die."
8. Time is on What Side?
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"[Rick Grimes] was in a coma per Robert [Kirkman] for four to five weeks and he wakes up and the world is gone," said Erickson of The Walking Dead. "If you count the days in season one we’re probably around the three-week mark." Erickson also confirmed we will not find out what exactly caused the apocalypse in the first place.
9. Crossovers to Come?
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No, says Erickson: "The thing with two shows, you have two narratives that are living inside the same mythology and I think the instinct for the audience and as well as someone who’s writing on the show is to try to make those two things collide and inflate them at a certain point. We don’t have any plans to do so."
10. Season 2 is a Go
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With only six Season 1 episodes, the good thing is we already know we’ll be getting more down the line. "I think by the end of Season 1, we definitely know the world has changed," explained Erickson. "We definitely know that it is the end of the world as we know it. But we aren't necessarily at the same place we were when Rick woke up in Georgia [in TWD pilot]."