'Fear the Walking Dead' Will Contain Clues to the Original Series, Creator Robert Kirkman Says

After fans have learned that ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ will show the zombie apocalypse as it takes place, the new companion series is now understood as a separate story from the original ‘The Walking Dead’ that showed viewers the world in which Rick Grimes woke up after a long coma.

It has then become a great question as to whether previously unnoticed details about how the outbreak begins will be incorporated to the upcoming series.

In other words, it has become an interesting subject whether the story that is followed in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ will have an explanation for the missing days on ‘The Walking Dead.’

Executive producer Robert Kirkman, who works on both programs, has revealed that what is shown in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ will offer details that will explain certain events in the first series.

“Everything that happens in Fear The Walking Dead is in the same universe as The Walking Dead,” Kirkman shared. “So any rule that we find out and anything they see in the early days is definitely something that was happening in the past of the other show.’

Despite having a different storyline as well as a change in characters and locations, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ should be looked into as a parallel story as opposed to being a prequel.

“These two shows are very intertwined in the same world, even if their characters aren’t necessarily going to interact because of geographical distances,” Kirkman further explained. “…Anything that you learn from Fear the Walking Dead will apply to the mythology of The Walking Dead and vice versa.”

Aside from the zombie outbreak, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ is expected to highlight personal and family issues with which the drama is expected to strongly push the series forward into more seasons.

“The irony for us is that the only thing that helps accomplish that is that the world ends. What’s intriguing to me is to take these problems, which I think would make for a compelling drama, and put them in this much larger canvas and see how they play out,” showrunner David Erickson previously shared.

Set in Los Angeles, confirmed cast members for ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ include Kim Dickens (‘Sons of Anarchy’, ‘Gone Girl’); Frank Dillane (‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’); Cliff Cutis (‘Missing’); Alycia Debnam-Carey (‘Into the Storm’); Mercedes Mason (‘Quarantine 2: Terminal’) and Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Orange is the New Black”).