Ever since AMC announced plans for a "Walking Dead" spinoff, we've been dying to know what the official title will be. Robert Kirkman, executive producer of the original series and producer of the spinoff, has dropped little bits of information about the new series but has remained tight-lipped on what the show will be called.
Well, BleedingCool.com claims to have some juicy information about the spinoff, including the title of the series and the script for the pilot episode. None of this information has been confirmed by AMC or Kirkman, but the site reports that "The Walking Dead" spinoff will be called "Fear the Walking Dead."
The alleged script for the pilot also hints that the characters in the new series are not aware just how serious the zombie apocalypse is. It's been previously reported that the spinoff will focus on the early outbreak, whereas the original started months after the zombie epidemic.
"The intro gives you a swerve, but the infection has not taken hold yet. The 'walkers' are not yet known to the population at large, as society stands on the cusp of its own destruction," BleedingCool wrote.
Kirkman previously said that the spinoff wouldn't be anything like the original show. He told Entertainment Weekly that both shows would be "startling different" from one another.
"I will say that this is going to be a show about family," Kirkman said. "But it's going to be a show about a different type of family that we haven't explored in 'The Walking Dead' thus far. So what we're trying to do with 'The Walking Dead' spinoff is keep the story as familiar as possible for people that love 'The Walking Dead,' so you'll get the kind of things that you expect from a 'Walking Dead' story."
"But at the same time, we'll want to tell these stories in a completely different way with completely different people in a completely different setting that's going to make for a fundamentally different show," he added. "I think the look and feel of 'The Walking Dead' spinoff is going to be startling different."
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