And we didn’t want to do The Walking Dead: Los Angeles. It was important to maintain elements of the original title and have that connection. What is your honest opinion of the title? TVLINE | When the title was announced many people - myself included - were hoping it was a joke. We’ll never tell a story from the CDC’s perspective, or from FEMA’s perspective. One of the things I loved about the original, and one of the things we’re going to maintain here, is we’re going to see through the eyes of the family the aftermath of the decisions that were made on the command level. TVLINE | Since it’s taking place in the early days of the outbreak, will we get a glimpse of the effort to contain it on a government level? The geography is an obstacle, and frankly somewhere down the road it will become an even greater obstacle. Never say never, but there are no plans right now. TVLINE | Does the show’s Los Angeles setting preclude any crossovers with the original Walking Dead cast? But as far as behavior and movement, that part is going to be the same. So some of those scenes may be more physical. Blood is no longer flowing, we’re playing with some effects for the eyes… Since we’re not dealing with the level of decay, I do think there’s a possibility for greater strength. A lot of our work is focusing on a corpse-like quality. When Rick comes out of his coma, four or five weeks in, you’re already dealing with walkers who have decayed and atrophied to a place where they look like monsters. TVLINE | Will there be any major differences between Fear‘s zombies and Walking Dead‘s zombies? Will yours be faster? Eventually, they’ll come to realize what Rick came to realize in the pilot: these people are not people anymore. The last place any of the characters want to go is to the place where the audience is waiting for them - which is that these people are not alive anymore. They’re ticking off the things that this could be: Is this person on something? Are they mentally ill? Is it a virus? They’re trying to grasp exactly what they’re confronting. TVLINE | I imagine they’re not even sure what’s wrong with them… It’s difficult to kill them, even when somebody’s coming after you… In terms of emotional tension, when we put one of our characters through a moment where they have to commit some brutality to defend themselves or others, they’ll suffer for it. Robert wanted to really dwell on what it’s like to a violent act - especially in our world, because it’s so early, and our walkers are fresher and far more human. We don’t get to a point where we’re actually in a full-blown apocalypse until much later in the show. There’s a bit more of a slow-burn to the story. We don’t go, for lack of a better term, full-zombie.
It’ll differ in so many ways… the anxiety and anticipation.
TVLINE | How will it differ tonally from the original series?
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