The upcoming AMC series "Fear the Walking Dead" will open up with the first look of the highly dysfunctional Bennett family.
According to Wetpaint, the first few parts of the 90-minute premiere episode of the "The Walking Dead" spin-off will introduce the viewers to the primary protagonists of the story. There is Travis (Cliff Curtis), a teacher, and his guidance counselor girlfriend Madison (Kim Dickens). They are joined by the former's two kids, drug-addict Nick (Frank Dillane) and ambitious Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey).
The group will attempt to ride out the zombie outbreak and will be some of the first people to realize that a virus is the cause of the undead apocalypse. "Fear" will reportedly start on a typical day in Los Angeles, where people are minding their own business, unaware of the outbreak that is about to get unleashed.
Showrunner Dave Erickson has earlier hinted of the fused timeline between TWD and the spinoff, revealing that the onset of the apocalypse will start while Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) is in a coma.
"We're covering the period of time when Rick was in his coma, so we're getting to see things go sideways in a way that he did not. We're very early, but if you think about the way a zombie outbreak would happen, it would happen very organically."
As "Fear" precedes the original zombie series, viewers will be treated to how zombies look like before they become the decayed and putrefied versions in TWD. They will not even be called "walkers," but a "cooler" West Coast version of the undead.
Creator Robert Kirkman, however, said that this does not make them any less monstrous. In an interview with Nerdist, he shared that the new zombies would make the violence in the story different and "much more startling."
As TWD fans have come to expect, the spin-off will feature blood, blood, and more blood. Erickson revealed that multiple characters would die in the season opener.
"Anybody can be eaten at any time; it can happen to anyone. No one is safe," he said.
"Fear the Walking Dead" airs Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. EST on AMC.
