AMC is already building up hype for this fall’s premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead,” the Los Angeles-based companion series to “The Walking Dead.”
EW landed some character images that show the calm before the infectious storm, with some details from franchise creator Robert Kirkman.
“Madison is a character whose husband died,” Kirkman explains of Kim Dickens‘s character. “And she’s been raising her kids on her own, so she’s a character that has experienced a very abrupt change to her life that she has had to adapt to. So there’s an inherent strength in this single mother that makes her in some ways uniquely adapted to live in the zombie apocalypse. And I think Kim has shown that if you want to have a strong female character, a no-nonsense strong character —but with a lot of warmth, because its hard sometimes to find an actress that can have those two things and can be this leader and also have this warmth and this kindness to her—that’s something that Kim is very capable of.”
He continues talking about Cliff Curtis, who plays Madison’s boyfriend, Travis.
“Travis is a character that represents a sense of stability in Madison’s life, and so he’s really 100 percent on board. With the craziness of her life, he’s her rock. … He’s definitely got a darkness to his past. … He is finding himself torn between Liza, his ex-wife, and Madison.”
The dynamics get complicated with Madison’s nightmare of a son, Nick (Frank Dillane).
“In the face of that, we’ve got Nick—who is played by Frank Dillane—who is pretty much a parent’s worst nightmare,” add Kirkman. “He has flunked out of college, had a lot of trouble, got mixed up in some bad elements, and is definitely the problem child. And it’s exacerbated for him to be next to this perfect sister who seemingly doesn’t have anything going on in her life that is negative. But that’s not really the case, that’s just his perception. So you have these two siblings that are very much at odds with each other.”
Alycia Debnam-Carey and Maestro Harrel also star in “Fear the Walking Dead.”
Check out the first “Fear the Walking Dead” footage with more details here.
