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  • ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Zombie Apocalypse Won’t Happen Until Season 2?

    You big tease! Fans may wince a little to hear the showrunner of “The Walking Dead” — especially in Season 2 — was its slow pace. So if this one is going to be even slower, and the first season only has six episodes, are fans even going to have the patience to stick around for the full apocalypse in Season 2?

    “Fear the Walking Dead” starts August 23 and (many) fans are excited to see the dawn of the zombie outbreak over in L.A. But we’ve been warned that this is a show about a dysfunctional family, and the world happens to end while they’re dealing with other things. As showrunner Dave Erickson said at the TCAs press tour, “By design, we tried to make it as much about the anxiety and paranoia and tension that goes along with this outbreak as about the actual confrontations with the zombies.” So the zombie show may not have that many zombies. TVLine added that the full-on apocalypse is mostly likely coming in Season 2, which has been OK’d for 15 episodes in 2016. “By the end of Season 1, we definitely know the world has changed,” the showrunner continued. “It is the end of the world as we know it.”

    “Fear” will be calling the walkers “infected,” kind of like “28 Days Later,” and the six-episode first season, followed by a longer season, is the same schedule AMC did for the main TWD show (which is now up to 16 episodes and Season 6, which starts in October). But that main show started with walkers and didn’t do a family drama build-up, so we’ll have to see if the tease of “Fear” is enough to keep fans entertained. The trailer they showed at Comic-Con was awesome, so if that’s what’s coming this month, then we’re psyched to see all of it … and then we’ll be really impatient to see more.

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  • Lead-Up to ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 and ‘Fear’ Starts With Sunday Marathons

    As Morgan Jones says, all life is precious, and yours should be devoted to “The Walking Dead” starting this Sunday, July 26. As AMC announced at Comic-Con, “Fear the Walking Dead” has its series premiere Sunday, August 23 at 9 p.m. on AMC, and “The Walking Dead” Season 6 has its supersized 90 minute premiere on Sunday, October 11 at 9 p.m., followed by “Talking Dead” at 10:30 p.m..

    Leading up to those big premieres are two cool events:

    1. AMC is launching a five Sunday, five season “Walking Dead” marathon, starting with Season 1, Episode 1, “Days Gone Bye” on Sunday, July 26 at 2:30 p.m. All six episodes of Season 1 will air that day. The next Sunday, August 2, Season 2 will start airing its 13 episodes at 7:30 a.m. The next Sunday, August 9, the 16 episodes of Season 3 will air. Season 4 airs Sunday, August 16. Season 5 will play out on Sunday, August 23. Here’s AMC’s full schedule. That marathon leads straight into…

    2. The “Talking Dead Season 6 Preview Special” airs Sunday, August 23 at 8 p.m., with new details and interviews and cool stuff about the main show’s sixth season. This will be followed by the “Fear the Walking Dead” premiere at 9 p.m.

    So August 23 is a very big night for “Dead” fans, but the long slow shuffle to Season 6 begins this very weekend with the first Sunday marathon. Are you in?


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  • Full ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Trailer Is Finally Here: Watch Spinoff Slay

    Yes! AMC doubled down on the “Dead” today at Comic-Con 2015. After sharing the big “Walking Dead” Season 6 trailer, they shared the first 3-minute trailer for the zombie show’s spinoff/companion series, “Fear the Walking Dead,” which is set at the dawn of the apocalypse.

    Up to this point, we had only seen little teasers for “Fear,” and it was hoped — but not known — if they would show more footage, since Season 1 is only meant to be six episodes, premiering Sunday, August 23 at 9 p.m. on AMC. But we were all very good this year, so here’s the full shebang:


    You know, we weren’t sure what to think about this one, but that trailer has us hooked. This looks better than we expected, like a classic horror movie, but hopefully the trailer didn’t give away too much, since there are only those six episodes in Season 1. AMC already said yes to a full Season 2, though, for 2016, so if we like it we can look forward to more.

    “Fear the Walking Dead” starts Sunday, August 23 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

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  • Watch Official ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Trailer (Plus Spoilers)

    Claimed! “The Walking Dead” Season 6 Comic-Con trailer just made its official debut today (Friday, July 10) at San Diego Comic-Con. A slightly shorter version was leaked online last night, but the full trailer has an extra 30 seconds a the start, before Enid walks through the gate, extending the footage to more than 4 minutes. That super-size length is perfect for the Season 6 premiere, which was announced to be 90 minutes, starting Sunday, October 11 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

    Here’s the full trailer:


    The trailer certainly leaves us with a lot of questions. Will almost everyone be against Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) this season, including his two BFFs? We figured Mr. All Life Is Precious Morgan Jones (Lennie James) might have concerns about The Ricktator’s kill-or-die strategy — and the trailer includes Morgan’s voice saying, “I know Rick, I can stop him” — but it looks like maybe Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) could disagree with Rick too. Probably not really though, since the trailers are always misleading, with quotes moved around and visuals definitely positioned to send us down the wrong path.

    This trailer not only focuses on Team Rick vs. Team Alexandria, it also ends with Daryl appearing to be in danger. But that’s probably more trolling to get the Daryl fans in a tizzy. But who ties up Daryl and points a gun at him, demanding that he not say sh-t or he’ll be killed? One of The Wolves or a different threat, since that particular guy did not have a “W”? (Some fans seem to think this guy is Kirk, a new character announced for this season. Didn’t see much of Heath, though.)

    *Warning: Walking Dead comic book spoilers referenced ahead*



    Who is Rick pointing a gun at in his “Do you have any idea who you’re talking to” speech? In the comic book, that speech — which ends with a great “united we stand” rally — was from Rick to Nicholas in Issues 89-90, when Nicholas says everything was fine before Rick showed up, then pulls a gun on Glenn, Maggie and everyone in his anti-Rick rant. But the TV show has already given Nicholas a different Glenn storyline, so would they also add this to his pile? If so, it may just make Glenn look worse for letting Nicholas continue to live. The trailer wants to make it seem like Rick is pointing his gun at Morgan, and they seem to want us to think Deanna Monroe is pushing for Morgan to take charge instead of Rick, but Rick and Morgan will probably end up on the same side, with Rick as leader. If they don’t give this exact gun-in-face moment to Nicholas, could they remix it with someone else?

    Several shots (including Jessie hiding) also suggest a massive herd attack on Alexandria, which would fit with the comic book storyline — unlike the Morgan vs. Rick stuff. In the comic, after a standoff with The Scavengers (The Wolves seem like a TV remix) at the Alexandria gate, the noise draws a huge group of walkers and the Alexandria Safe-Zone is breached. By that point, Rick was fully in charge, with the leader (Douglas Monroe in the comics) going a bit mad. The TV show has changed so much — not only with Deanna losing both her husband and one of her sons, but also with the new twist of adding Zen Morgan to the mix — that it’s hard to know what might happen. (Will Carl still lose an eye or not?) There were shots of Enid in there, so we might get her backstory, along with whatever is happening outside the wall with Daryl. Neither Enid nor Daryl is even in the comic book, so they could do anything.

    A ton of stuff will be coming out at Comic-Con, but here’s a portion of showrunner Scott Gimple’s vague Q&A with Entertainment Weekly:

    Should we assume, then, that there are some other threats in season 6 in addition to the Wolves?
    There are multiple threats, even in the first half of the season. And sort of different versions of threats we’ve seen before. The first three episodes are quite intense, and the cast and crew are — we just shot them out of a cannon directly into another cannon that we shot them out of again. The first three episodes are — we say every year, “Ah, it’s so crazy” and everything, and it has been crazy — but the first three episodes this year and the things that we’re doing are very big and very difficult, and we’re pushing people hard, and in some ways I think we’re going to be pushing the audience hard. I’m pretty excited and terrified about it.

    “Walking Dead” trailers traditionally include footage from up to the first 5-6 episodes, since they are still filming the season and they usually get through the epic Episode 8 midseason finale in August. We’re now extra excited for those first three episodes, as well as the rest of the 16-ep season. Are you pumped?

    “The Walking Dead” Season 6 starts Sunday, October 11 on AMC, with a 90-minute premiere.

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  • ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Premieres October 11 With 90-Minute Episode


    UPDATE: Christmas is here! The big Season 6 trailer is now available for viewing, and the premiere date was confirmed as Sunday, October 11, 2015. Season 6, Episode 1 will be 90 minutes, bumped up from the usual 60 minutes. Woo hoo! Here’s AMC confirming it all:


    Not sure yet what that means for “Talking Dead,” but it may just air at 10:30, like they did after the 90 minute Season 5 finale.

    Original story:

    The “Dead” will rise very soon! AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead” will have back-to-back panels at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 10. The main show is going first, staging its Season 6 panel at 12 p.m. PDT (3 p.m. for East Coasters) in Hall H. That is traditionally when they debut the big first trailer with enticing (but often misleading) footage from the first five or six episodes. That may also be when we get confirmation on the official premiere date. There’s no saying they will definitely do that this year, but don’t be surprised if the trailer includes the premiere date at the end, and don’t be surprised if it’s something like Sunday, October 11. It’s definitely a Sunday in October.


    Speaking of needing a specific release date, the same goes for “The Walking Dead” spinoff that’s not really a spinoff/prequel that’s not really a prequel. “Fear” is playing Skipper to TWD’s Barbie, holding its own panel from 1-2 p.m. PT in Hall H on July 10. Since this show is brand new, we can only guess that they too will share the official August premiere date and also provide a real trailer instead of the very brief premiere teasers that’ve aired so far.

    Dave Erickson is the showrunner of FTWD, which just shared some exclusive new photos with Entertainment Weekly. In that story, Erickson emphasized that the L.A.-based story is about a “dysfunctional blended family” and the zombie apocalypse just happens to launch while they’re in the middle of their other crap.

    Here’s how he put it:

    One of the things that Robert [Kirkman] and I discussed from the very beginning was, we’re starting a little earlier in the apocalypse. And what that allowed us to do in the pilot and season 1 is establish our core family, establish the problems and the conflicts that they have, and really let that be the initial world that we live in. And we layer in the onset of the apocalypse, we layer in our first walkers, but it’s really an effort to exacerbate the problems that already exist with Kim Dickens’ character and Cliff Curtis’ character and their sort of dysfunctional blended family. It’s really filtering the apocalypse through that.”

    Long story short, clear your afternoon next Friday, July 10, and get ready to watch potentially two major new “Dead” trailers. We’re especially looking forward to dissecting the Season 6 trailer, which should showcase Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Morgan Jones’s (Lennie James) latest meeting, more conflict in Alexandria, and a showdown with The Wolves.

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  • ‘The Walking Dead’ Boss Cancels Comic-Con 2015 Plans After Throat Surgery

    Where’s Daryl Dixon with an emotional ugly cry when you need one? Robert Kirkman is the “The Walking Dead” comic book writer and AMC show executive producer, and also producer of the spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead,” and he has a dozen other jobs. He was going to promote them all this week at Comic-Con 2015. He’s a SDCC staple — Norman Reedus (who is also in Kirkman’s upcoming movie “Air”) even called him “the God of Comic-Con.” But this deity is a little too mortal, and throat surgery is going to bench him from the many panels he was scheduled to speak at this week. Fans will truly be missing a lot of important insight without Kirkman’s voice.

    Here’s the (surprisingly funny, especially toward the end) update from Robert Kirkman, posted July 7 to his Skybound site:

    People of Earth,

    It is with tremendous regret that I must inform you that I will not be attending Comic-Con International in San Diego this year. I won’t be at the Skybound Comics panel in room 7AB on Thursday, 7/9, from 12-1pm or our Skybound Entertainment panel in room 6BCF from 3:30-4:30pm that same day. I won’t be at the WALKING DEAD or FEAR THE WALKING DEAD panels in Hall H Friday, which are taking place at 12pm and 1pm, respectively. I won’t be at the OUTCAST TV show panel in room 6DE on Saturday, 7/11, from 3-4pm. I won’t be signing at the Image Comics/Skybound – booth #2729. I won’t be at the Skybound Fifth Anniversary and AIR Premiere event. I won’t even be across the street at the Walker Stalker Fan Fest located at Petco Park, where you can get a hands on experience with OVERKILL’S THE WALKING DEAD ahead of its 2016 release. Unfortunately, after years and years of being healthier than my physique would indicate I had to have minor surgery on my throat. Nothing serious, but in the aftermath of such a fun experience, it comes with a brief duration of time where I’m unable to speak so all that pink business inside me can heal. As luck would have it, that period of time overlaps with Comic-Con.

    This is the first Comic-Con I’m missing in well over a decade. While I’m bummed that I can’t be there, there’s nothing keeping you from enjoying all the fun events I mentioned above despite my absence. Have you seen Andrew Lincoln’s eyes up close? You don’t want to miss those! Don’t pass up the opportunity to ask both Patrick Fugit and Kim Dickens how much I enjoyed their performances in Gone Girl (hint, a lot). Believe me when I tell you the trailers we’re debuting for each of these three TV shows and Skybound’s first feature, AIR, are phenomenal and you’re definitely going to want to be among the first to see them. The Skybound booth is going to have all kinds of ridiculously awesome stuff at it, including a crossbow that fires littles foam darts. I’ve been terrorizing people around the office with it for months.

    I plan on making my triumphant Comic-Con return next year, you’ve been warned. Until then I’ll just be catching up on work and eating a lot of ice cream. So go to a panel, buy an overpriced hotdog, and think of me when you’re buying Transformer toys. I wish you all a fun and safe Comic-Con. Someone please be sure to bootleg the Deadpool trailer for me!

    -Robert Kirkman

    There you go — you have your marching orders: Bootleg the “Deadpool” trailer for “The Walking Dead” creator, since he won’t be there in person. Also, the big “Walking Dead” Season 6 trailer will be released this Friday, July 10 during the TWD panel; after it premieres, we should all tweet Kirkman with questions about it, since he seems to have some free time. Get well soon, man!

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  • New ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Premiere Clips: Missing Posters, ‘Virus’ Talk

    Last week, AMC shared a “Walking Dead” spinoff clip of a teenager trying to warn Kim Dickens’ high school guidance counselor Madison that a virus of some kind has been spreading across five states and “people are killing.” And today AMC just shared another brief clip of Madison in the car with Cliff Curtis’s Travis as they drive past missing posters and see a suspicious shuffler in a park.

    So we may be getting these new teases — posted as “trailers” by AMC but they are not really trailers — pretty regularly before the August premiere.

    Here are the two most recent teases:


    You can’t really blame Madison for blowing off that kid, even if trusting the authorities is always a laughable idea. Our response would’ve been, “Nice try, but your trig homework is still due tomorrow.” But “Fear” is going to test our patience like this and prompt many viewers to consider the characters dumb for not knowing what we only know because we watched “The Walking Dead” — that this “virus” is actually the zombie apocalypse (not that we’ll be calling them zombies) and they’re all infected. But it would be stupid for a high school guidance counselor to be like “Oh my God, sound the alarm – the world is ending!” just because, for once, what seemed like paranoia was really prescience.

    This “Fear” beast is stopping by in August, but AMC has yet to say exactly when in August. We’re on standby for more of these non-trailer teases from Season 1, Episode 1, and we’d love an actual trailer for the full season — which is only six episodes, but still. Next year we’ll get a longer Season 2. Meanwhile, Season 6 of the mothership show is arriving in October, as usual, and we can expect a lot more info on both “Walking Dead” shows during San Diego Comic-Con in July. That should be when we get the long TWD Season 6 trailer and perhaps that’s when we’ll get a legit FTWD trailer too.

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  • First ‘Walking Dead’ Season 6 Poster Teases Team Rick vs. Team Morgan

    So much for that King County bromance. “The Walking Dead” Season 6 starts in October, but AMC just released the first poster/banner/key art in advance of July’s San Diego Comic-Con 2015, where the cast and crew will once again dominate Hall H with an awesome promo and zero answers on what actually happens in the 16 episodes ahead. But this first poster does give us some strong hints.

    The image shows Season 1 besties Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Morgan Jones (Lennie James), almost butting heads, but also almost leaning into each other’s foreheads in that I LOVE YOU MAN bromance way. They are looking past each other, heavily hinting to two sides being taken in Season 6 — Rick’s Atlanta OGs and new friends to the left, and the Alexandrians to the right, led possibly by Rick’s old savior Morgan but also including Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam). Apparently he is not done betraying Rick’s group. Shocker.

    It’s interesting to see who is singled out and placed where in the image. We have Rick at center with his other bromance buddy Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) behind him, then Glenn (Steven Yeun), Maggie (Lauren Cohan ), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Carol (Melissa McBride, still in Cookie Mom attire), Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green), Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs), Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Rosita (Christian Serratos) and Tara (Alanna Masterson). They are standing by the Alexandria wall and burned lookout tower, where Sasha occasionally likes to lose her mind. No baby Judith, but that poor kid rarely makes it into the promo material.

    To the right we have Morgan and his “all life is precious” mantra fronting Team Alexandria, with Deanna Monroe (Toval Fedshuh) behind him (interesting that she’s behind him) next to Rick’s new girlfriend Jessie (Alexandra Breckenridge), Aaron (Ross Marquand) the recruiter, and Spencer Monroe (Austin Nichols), whom we didn’t see too much in Season 5. Austin Nichols may finally get to do something this season, which is good. (Does he look angry in this pic? Maybe he’s going to blame Rick and company for what happened to his brother and father.)

    The cropped version really focuses in on Rick, Morgan, Daryl, Deanne, Jessie, and FG, but at least we see the others in the background. The full banner — see it here in all its glory — also reveals the locations around them and a ton of sky above. Is there significance to the amount of air they left above them?
    Season 5 ended with Rick killing Pete (on Deanna’s order/request) and Morgan walking in on the action, flanked by Daryl and Aaron. Morgan’s perspective has changed drastically since the last time we saw him “clear” back in Season 3. He is now a no-kill Jedi master and Rick is fully in kill-or-die mode. However, Season 5 also ended with The Wolves in possession of the Alexandria map, so they know where our group is and seemed poised to attack. They are nowhere to be found in this first poster, but the wall is there and we’re worried about this team working together if/when The Wolves attack and the wall is breached.

    AMC also added that “The Walking Dead” Comic Con panel will take place Friday, July 10 at 12:00 pm PDT in Hall H. So that’s when we should get the massive trailer that is usually based on the first five or six episodes but still never actually tells us as much as we think it does. They haven’t even finished shooting most of the episodes — the Episode 8 midseason finale probably won’t be shot until August and the finale will be filmed toward the end of November.

    Are you excited for TWD Season 6? “Fear the Walking Dead” will show up first in August, but this is the showdown we’re really pumped about.

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  • ‘The Walking Dead’ May Be Coming to IMAX Theaters Soon

    Following a successful theatrical run of episodes of HBO series “Game of Thrones,” IMAX has its sights set on another successful TV show: “The Walking Dead.”

    Greg Foster, senior executive vice president and CEO of IMAX Entertainment, revealed during a recent presentation to investors that the company was interested in expanding its offerings of television episodes on the big screen.

    “We’ll be looking for more content like ‘Game of Thrones,’” Foster told investors. “A high bar to kind of strive for would be ‘The Walking Dead,’ and we have had conversations with our pals at the AMC network about that.”

    Earlier this year, IMAX screened the final two episodes of “Game of Thrones”‘s fourth season, along with a sneak preview of season five that was created exclusively for the event. The stunt was apparently a success, leading the company to search for other properties interested in making the jump from the small to the big screen.

    While Foster told investors that the “Walking Dead” partnership was nowhere near a done deal, the exec said IMAX was very interested in making it happen. “[W]e’re looking for more epic content that’s in line with the IMAX experience,” Foster said. (And how epic would Rick’s disgusting zombie kill from the season five finale look on an IMAX screen?)

    Stay tuned to see if AMC bites.

    [via: The Hollywood Reporter]

    Photo credit: Gene Page/AMC

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  • Check Out Conan’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Sneak Peek Spoof

    So by now you probably know that “The Walking Dead,” is set in Los Angeles at the start of the zombie apocalypse. Conan O’Brien, who has previously had the entire “Walking Dead” cast on the show and dressed as a zombie himself, had some fun with that idea by sharing what he called a “Fear the Walking Dead” Exclusive Sneak Peek.

    Check it out:

    Yes, the whole season will be set on the 405! Hopefully the real show does not have many (or any) L.A. in-jokes since most of the world will be left out.

    The real FTWD stars Kim Dickens (“Gone Girl”), Cliff Curtis (“Missing,” “Gang Related”), Frank Dillane (“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”) and Alycia Debnam Carey (“Into the Storm”), and executive producer Robert Kirkman Game of Thrones” recently had an episode that basically looked like “The Walking Dead” on ice. Heck with L.A. — why can’t AMC give us snow zombies?!

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