Fear The Walking Dead Isn’t Interested In Answering Origin Questions

Fear The Walking Dead is going to relieve us of our need for more The Walking Dead action, but the prequel series won’t answer all of the questions we have.

This summer will see the premiere of Fear The Walking Dead, which is a prequel spinoff companion series to The Walking Dead. It’s a series that we’re all still unsure of, as it’s a completely original idea that will break away from the chains that The Walking Dead has wrapped around it in that it needs to follow source material.

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In fact, showrunner Robert Kirkman is going to great lengths to let us know that Fear The Walking Dead is going o exist purely on it’s own and won’t lean on the original series for much of anything.

Kirkman noted that among the things Fear The Walking Dead won’t get deep into discussing is the origin of the zombie outbreak.

"“[Learning the origins] is not the priority in Walking Dead; that’s not the priority in Fear The Walking Dead,” Kirkman told a packed panel at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. “Every other story deals with that stuff and we’re concerned about the heart.”"

That seems counterintuitive to the very idea of a prequel, but Kirkman goes on to note that this isn’t a traditional prequel and we should all probably stop thinking that way.

"“It’s not a prequel in that at the end of this series Rick will wake up from his coma,” says Kirkman, adding that there will be some timeline overlap."

This is interesting in that Fear the Walking Dead‘s relation to The Walking Dead seems to be in name and context only. There aren’t any planned crossovers, there aren’t any callbacks between the series and the organ of the series isn’t even going to be discussed — at least not in a central way.

Fear The Walking Dead needs to carve out it’s own place in the universe of The Walking Dead, and it appears that’s the chance that Robert Kirkman is giving it with the strategy the series is taking.

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