Greg Nicotero Talks Fear The Walking Dead
Greg Nictero recently spoke a bit about the walkers that are shambling their way to the AMC spinoff “Fear The Walking Dead,” and we have the goods right here courtesy of Melty.
Will the L.A. location have an effect on the look of the walkers…
“Fear The Walking Dead” happens almost before our show even premiered. One thing we play up on the show is the environment and how that plays on the walkers. In Georgia, it’s very humid and sunny, so we take that into consideration. Los Angeles, it’s a lot more dry climate, so we have had conversations about what that would do to the look of the walkers.”
Will we see the start of the outbreak…
I would say it’s not necessarily important how. What’s important in the spinoff is how people react to it. It really is a fascinating statement on current society because we get most of our information from our iPads and our phones, so there have been things that have been happening in recent years… when you hear stories like that, when you hear about some guy who attacked someone and bit their face off, imagining how we reacted to that news story at the time. Even in the United States, there was a nurse who was working in Africa and came back to the United States and refused to go into quarantine. I think about stories like that and go, ‘Wow, maybe that could’ve been the beginning.’ In a TV show like Fear The Walking Dead, you get to ask those same questions.”
Will the characters differ from the ones found on the original show…
The main difference in Fear The Walking Dead is we’re with families at the beginning of it, so clearly that’s one of the main emotional aspects. Going after your children to protect them, or going after your ex-wife and your child who’s with another parent. All these kinds of things that all pop up at the moment when things start to unravel, like, who do you protect and what extent do you go to to protect them?”
The new series will be set in Los Angeles and focuses on new characters and storylines. The show’s first season will consist of six one-hour episodes and premiere on AMC in late summer. The second season will air in 2016.
Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero, and David Alpert from “The Walking Dead” are executive producers of the new series, which, like the original, is being produced by AMC Studios. Dave Erickson (“Marco Polo,” “Sons of Anarchy”), who co-created and co-wrote the pilot with Kirkman, is an executive producer and showrunner.
The series will star Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, “Sons of Anarchy”), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange Is the New Black), and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm).
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