Robert Kirkman was really gracious when we first sat down and talked about doing this, I said I need to layer something in that’s specific to me.
He has his ex-wife, who’s played by Elizabeth Rodriguez, and his 16-year-old son. He has recently moved into her home with her kids. Yeah, in terms of setup, Travis and Madison (Cliff Curtis and Kim Dickens), they’re a couple, they’re not married.
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Will the focus of the series be more on this one family instead of the larger group ensemble of “The Walking Dead?” It starts with the quotidian fears we have every day and grows into something far more dramatic and far more powerful. It doesn’t hit a crescendo until a bit later. Tonally, it’s about paranoia, tension and anxiety and people not behaving and not quite looking right. It’s about, we know something is wrong and we’re going through the process of trying to understand what it might be. The thing for us, it’s very much about the shark you don’t see for the first couple of episodes. There is, inherently, Kim Dickens’ son, who is played by Frank Dillane, has certain issues and certain problems that cause tension and worry about your son, your daughter, your ex-wife and then it evolves from that. Then those problems are exacerbated by the rise of the dead and the arrival of the apocalypse. The problems in this highly dysfunctional, fractured, blended family are established in the pilot and those are the stories we’re telling for the duration of the season. And we get to start with what feels very much like a straight-up family drama. One of the things I love about the show is that we get to slow-burn the apocalypse a little bit. What’s interesting about that, and I joke about it, but we’re dealing with a group of people who are completely ill-prepared for this. Well, the characters wouldn’t know to fear the walking dead since in this series, the outbreak is just beginning. Also, if you didn’t know it before, now you know you really should fear the walking dead. I think that ultimately as things tend to go, it will be broken down and people will start to refer to it as “Fear.” Which is what we’ve been doing, internally. When it came down to what we definitely did not want to do, which was “The Walking Dead: Los Angeles,” “The Walking Dead: X.” To me, the title is strong and blunt.
In the same way that they’re very different shows, but they live under the same mythological umbrella, it was important that there was some connective tissue in terms of the larger franchise.
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