Will “Fear the Walking Dead” Focus on the Human Perspective like “The Walking Dead”?
The Walking Dead (2010) has always been a story about humans. Its narrative is a study of humanity, morality, survival, and human behavior in the worst of situations. Fear The Walking Dead (2015) will not deviate from the core of The Walking Dead’s mythos. In fact, it will be even more driven by the human element as we get to see the effects of the zombie apocalypse’s outbreak on families and neighbors. In all other Walking Dead universes, most family units and neighborhoods have already been destroyed and we witness what happens moving forward. Fear The Walking Dead will take us to an earlier timeline not yet investigated by The Walking Dead.
Showrunner Dave Erickson said “Robert [Kirkman] very poignantly said that he likes to avoid the CDC perspective, the FEMA perspective, at least moving forward. It’s something I agree with; we’ll never tell the story from the perspective of the bureaucrats, politicians and generals who are all trying to contain it. It will always be from the ground level looking up. There’s something far more overwhelming and beautiful about your next-door neighbor and people you know trying to understand the apocalypse. It’s really quite daunting.”