More details about AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead" have been revealed, making fans extra excited for its premiere next month.
During the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con panel of AMC, series producer David Alpert revealed that they are planning to tackle how mass media affects the flow of information and misinformation during the onset of the zombie outbreak as it happens on "Fear the Walking Dead." Alpert said that he is fascinated by how misinformation is spread during natural disasters at the present times, citing the events that happened in New Orleans during typhoon Katrina, where fake reports caused panic and paranoia.
According to the producer, "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."
Meanwhile, actor Cliff Curtis told the attendees that "Fear the Walking Dead" will also feature the same pressure that the people in the original "The Walking Dead" series felt when they were forced to stick together in communities. According to the actor, who portrays the role of high school English teacher Travis Manawa, the characters in the companion series have to cooperate with people that they have never met before, which means that tensions will rise since not everyone will agree about the same thing.
This can be seen in the central story of the show, as Travis has to make sure that his fiancée Madison (Dickens) and her children Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), along with his son Chris (Lorenzo James Henrie) and his ex-wife Liza (Elizabeth Rodriguez), are safe. But it does not mean that this will be easy since there will undoubtedly be huge tension within the group.
"The goal is to take these converging familial elements," series co-creator Dave Erickson explained, "which are specific yet universal and then exacerbate them with an oncoming apocalypse."
As the premiere release draws near, AMC released another poster for the series. This time, it shows a couple of kids playing basketball, seemingly unaware of the zombie walking toward them.
"Fear the Walking Dead," the upcoming companion series for the hit post-apocalyptic thriller "The Walking Dead," is slated to premiere on Sunday, Aug. 23, on AMC.
