Here is the little slice of zombie heaven fans have been waiting for! AMC has graciously granted a quick glimpse into the "Walking Dead" companion series, "Fear The Walking Dead." The sister series will premiere Sunday, but AMC was nice enough to share the first three minutes of the television thriller early.
WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE: #FearBeginsHere this Sunday at 9/8c.
Posted by Fear the Walking Dead on Thursday, August 20, 2015
The clip opens to Nick Clark, portrayed by Frank Dillane, waking up in what appears to be an abandoned church. Nick stumbles through pews and corridors calling for Gloria. He decides to head down a flight of stairs where he finds a man with his throat essentially missing. Yikes! Nick begins to yell for Gloria even more vehemently. Nick continues to search until he finally descends upon Gloria who is hunched over a figure. He quickly tells her "We gotta go." She then turns around and to Nick's dismay she is no longer Gloria, but a zombie. And scene.
Yup, it ends right there.
"Fear The Walking Dead" takes place in Los Angeles before the catastrophic zombie apocalypse. The show stars Frank Dillane as a Nick Clark, Alycia Debnam-Carey as his sister, Alicia Clark. Kim Dickens plays their mother, Madison Clark. Cliff Curtis portrays Madison's boyfriend, Travis Manawa and "Orange Is The New Black's" Elizabeth Rodriguez also stars as a single mother and nursing student. The plot of the entire show finds the characters in the wake of the zombie take over. They fear something dangerous is approaching, but are unsure of what it really is.
Cliff Curtis spoke with Entertainment Weekly, advising the zombie show is unique in that the audience already knows what the characters unknowingly fear.
"We don't know about what's coming or what this whole phenomenon is," he said. "So the audience knows so much more than we do and it's kind of like we're just sort of carrying on... like go pick up the kids from school. Oh, the school's not really a school anymore. Oh, we've got to go and get that stuff to go to the library, and the library's overrun, and oh, we've got to go to the emergency ward. So this discovering, it's more like a natural disaster-type setup where there's a natural disaster, whatever this virus is or this disease that sort of overrun our nation."
Curtis also adds, the show is much more than a zombie terror, but a family drama. "It read like a real family show/drama about people's ordinary lives."
Except for the whole zombie thing, right?
According to Deadline, "Fear The Walking Dead" has already been renewed for a second season, which will premiere in 2016. For now, fans can hold onto these 3-minutes of glorious gore until "Fear The Walking Dead's" Sunday premiere on AMC.