A new prequel spin-off to The Walking Dead, which takes place in the streets of Los Angeles amid the early days of the infection.
Here's a teaser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fal6iObZBE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fal6iObZBE)
Makes sense, if only for the fact that it can't be compared negatively against the comic.
Quote from: Karl Stephan on 30 March, 2015, 10:22:50 PM
Makes sense, if only for the fact that it can't be compared negatively against the comic.
??? Don't understand this. I've not heard anybody say the comic is better than the TV show.
The comic is better than the TV show.
The show and the comic both kind of suck, but the comic is better than the TV show.
I disgree. The TV show is better than the comic. It's so much more refined in so many ways.
I love the comic, but I adore the TV show.
Quote from: locustsofdeath! on 31 March, 2015, 05:52:10 PM
The show and the comic both kind of suck, but the comic is better than the TV show.
Shame. I think you're really missing out. Each to his own though.
Quote from: Mattofthespurs on 31 March, 2015, 05:56:25 PM
Quote from: locustsofdeath! on 31 March, 2015, 05:52:10 PM
The show and the comic both kind of suck, but the comic is better than the TV show.
Shame. I think you're really missing out. Each to his own though.
Weeeeell, I both read the comic and watch the show. So I'm not just saying they suck just to say they suck.
The comic book suffers from some very bad dialogue and extreme telling instead of showing (talking heads in a bad way, i.e., characters at times look like they're vomiting word balloons all over the page); it has become extremely repititious and has always suffered from dull, soap-opera-y storylines within the larger storylines. For a while I could overlook all of this for love of a zombie comic but now I just read out of habit and eyeroll most of the time.
The show...eh. I watch it.
Sadly I am getting closer to Locust's opinion but every now and again it jumps back to the first few arcs, which were great (and better executed in the comic!)
It's all about the Game for me now. Clementine.... LEEEE! *Sob*.
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 01 April, 2015, 05:16:13 PM
It's all about the Game for me now. Clementine.... LEEEE! *Sob*.
Oh yeah, the game is fantastic! The end of the first season was heartbreaking. Some great writing there.
Here's some more info about the show...
QuoteSpeaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the timeline of this new series, Erickson said, "We are loosely covering the period of time that Rick was in his coma in Season 1. We're able to watch and experience the things that he missed. It's more of a parallel story than a prequel; imagine the opening where Rick gets shot and goes in his coma — that day was probably very close to our Day 1. We're playing out the idea of what was going on in the country and the world until he woke up, stepped outside and it's welcome to the apocalypse. That's why a "companion piece" has been the phrase used at the network. It's not a prequel in the sense of Better Call Saul, where we're jumping back six, seven years. It does tie very specifically into the pilot of the original. 'Prequel' is not the right word; it's kind of its own strange, hybrid thing. I wish I had a better word."
Moving on to the main characters of Fear the Walking Dead, Erickson went on, "It's about a family: Travis just moved in with his girlfriend Madison after they got married. She has two children, one of whom has some issues. Travis has a very pissed-off teenager and an ex-wife. You're talking about two people who, as the story opens, all they want is to bring their family together under one roof and make everyone whole. The irony for us is that the only thing that helps accomplish that is that the world ends. What's intriguing to me is to take these problems, which I think would make for a compelling drama, and put them in this much larger canvas and see how they play out. All of the issues that we establish, these are the things that in my head will come to fruition in Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 6. It forges an interesting introduction into this world. It's much more about the "shark" you don't see in Season 1. We obviously play some of the tropes — and there are definitely walkers — but it's people trying to wrap their brain around what the hell is going on and not fully understanding the zombie apocalypse by Act 1. It's going through that process of the colleague or the friend you had coffee with the day before is now trying to kill you. And your first thought's going to be, 'They're sick, they're on something.' It takes a bit of time for everyone to wrap their brains around what this truly means."
At present the first season has been confirmed as just six episodes, although a second season has already been ordered by AMC. On the likelihood of expanding the second year to include more episodes, Erickson suggested, "I would imagine the network has a very specific plan. I think thirteen is a great number; fifteen, sixteen, it's really a question of having the time to sit down and make sure we're not burning story to burn story; that we're able to build something that's layered and textured and compelling. I think it's a safe bet that if things go well, they'll probably want more rather than less, but I'm not sure what that number's going to be."
Set in Los Angeles, Fear the Walking Dead will star Cliff Curtis as Travis, Kim Dickens as Madison, and Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Nick and Alicia, Madison's children. Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason will also feature in the show.
Fear the Walking Dead will debut on AMC later this year, with a UK home has yet to be confirmed at this stage.
Reminds me of some of the promos they had for one of the earlier seasons where they showed alternative preludes based on other people who weren't in the series.
Yet, one of them was about the very first walker (or Crawler!) Rick after he returned to the Armoury. He had found her before, dragging only the top half of it's body through some park after he escaped from the hospital and returning location to offer her mercy killing. She was moving that slowly, (Reminds me of a MacDonald's worker. that she was easy to track and find.
n the promo, she is still alive and with two teenage children (I think!) before she is forced to sacrifice herself for them and let them get a head start as they flee the neighbourhood.
Apologies if my description sounded a bit dark there......
Here is some actual background information found
Days Gone By - Hannah (http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Hannah_(Webisodes))
Here's the
video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGBuZkemI1w) itself!
Those were the webisodes that were placed between seasons. They're already on the forum, around the time they aired, if I remember correctly.
I just found this...it's parody film clip taken from well known scenes from the original series using
Queen's Another One Bites the Dust.
TWD VS Q'S AOBTD (http://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3345595/walking-dead-versus-queens-another-one-bites-dust/)
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 May, 2015, 02:31:16 AM
Those were the webisodes that were placed between seasons. They're already on the forum, around the time they aired, if I remember correctly.
You are correct. I remember you posting the links to them long ago because I watched them all. And then just as now I remember thinking that I'd lap up any kind of post-apocalyptic urban zombie fare. That's why I'm looking forward to yet more Walking Dead, no matter how tedious it can get at times. I love the idea of multiple-yet-unconnected perspectives from the same scenario.
COMIC CON TRAILER (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ihtpGoYcok)
Exclusive to BT TV when they launch their AMC channel in September.
Quote from: Albion on 27 July, 2015, 11:21:14 AM
Exclusive to BT TV when they launch their AMC channel in September. Torrentz
A bit bizarre that Fox UK won't be broadcasting this. Ah well.
I might watch this as it sounds like a complete rip-off of The Strain, which at only one season has yet to outstay its welcome in the same way The Walking Dead has.
This hit the telly for our American chums the other night. It's not hit a lot of facebook feeds as of yet.
Is this the correct thread for posting reviews about this one. As I found the first episode on last night.
Even the different setting on the west coast was just enough to throw this one out a little for me. I used to the backwards less populated places. Even Atlanta seems more country (Sorry, if any of the locals find that insulting or just plain dumb!) than Los Angelus, (Thinking of the transition from Buffy to Angel here, but even those places were much closer (A hours drive by Van according to Oz) and scrapping the analogy right there!)
I was think just now (As well!) that this is supposedly going to be more Gangsta than Hick, but not really....It just hard to get used TWD with a new cast of characters. I though cameo from Merl and Daryl (Derl!) might be welcome, if impossible or at least one of the other characters that were later introduced to the series via travelling east from west?
Still too early in the show to be making any more judgement about it except that I thought it stuck to slow reveal of what was going on much longer than they did in the original series. [spoiler] The first Walker as some young woman who was just eating somebody in a church. Still very much human, and not so much a Rotter (A name I came up with last night while watching!) with that faint spark of cannibalism in her eyes. Still kind of hot looking....before the Latino (Only assuming, but hard to tell which is which unless they're white or dark!) dude who notices her and runs for his life. Not giving any more of this away, except his looks seem degrade ever so slightly as he escapes from his hospital bed, finds a old contact of his who he eventually kills. It might be the drugs he was given......but he looks more degraded and less homely as this episode progress's. Not sure if he was infected, but not so much as bad as the other guy. The Walker who shocks the other too into a startling realistation when he rises for the third time after being shot, then run over, and sent flying into one of those cement cannels that run like a dry river bed through some of the more well known parts of the city (Only well by film and that GTA San Andreas game, even if that isn't exactly the same place.) and with the lower half of face missing any flesh. His eyes pale like so many others of his kind.[/spoiler]
Sorry, if that spoils it for you, but I did use a spoiler.
Fear the Walking Dead: a bit dull with all that "character building". I'll give it another episode or two. I hope they invoke the LA Rodney King Riots with the storyline - I always felt a zombie retelling of the riots would be fantastic.
So the druggie kid - was the actor impersonating Johnny Depp or impersonating Skeet Ulrich impersonating Johnny Depp? ...
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 25 August, 2015, 12:04:13 AM
Even the different setting on the west coast was just enough to throw this one out a little for me. I used to the backwards less populated places.
Good sir, here on the East Coast we are not backwards. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington DC, ect, are all cities that compare to Los Angeles. Having also lived in California (San Diego) for several years I can assure you that there are as many hicks in California as there are anywhere else in the US.
Also, Atlanta is the in the south. Not East Coast at all, its on the Gulf Coast.
Quote from: locustsofdeath! on 25 August, 2015, 02:27:20 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 25 August, 2015, 12:04:13 AM
Even the different setting on the west coast was just enough to throw this one out a little for me. I used to the backwards less populated places.
Good sir, here on the East Coast we are not backwards. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington DC, ect, are all cities that compare to Los Angeles. Having also lived in California (San Diego) for several years I can assure you that there are as many hicks in California as there are anywhere else in the US.
Also, Atlanta is the in the south. Not East Coast at all, its on the Gulf Coast.
So, You've been on both sides, so you obviously not!
In this show and a few others like it, there were shown more signs of urban decay in the parts of
L.A. than there were in
Atlanta before the epidemic hit. Assuming it's a bigger sprawl. (is it?) Without looking at maps to compare. I always assume, the bigger the city or sprawl, the more slums....
Atlanta is on the east side.....correct?
Yet, further inward, behind
Florida on the coast.
If there are hicks everywhere, then I figured there are more in the less populated areas closer to the mid west?
Anyway, I've never been to the states.......are they really that much more free than part of world?
Despite nobody saying so, I suppose I should scratch my head at foreign folks who think we live in the outback and keep kangaroos/koalas as pets.
The "East Coast" stretches down to the Carolinas...then it becomes the "South". The South is much much different than what folks here would consider the East Coast (where the actual Yanks all live). People from Atlanta would be just as upset about being lumped in with East Coasters as us East Coasters would be upset about those bumpkins being lumped in with us.
California is huge, and has much rural and backwoods area. There are deserts as well as deep forests. California has several populated hubs - the rest is very rural. Lots of dudes in big trucks, lots of hicks in tight jeans, haha.
So, Cali is more Hick than most places in the States. Should have known from days of play ing San Andreas and travelling behind hills.....
Sorry, if I offended, okay.
Quote from: Albion on 27 July, 2015, 11:21:14 AM
Exclusive to BT TV when they launch their AMC channel in September.
So not many folks over this side of the pond going to be watching then? Bugger. Wait for the DVD release then.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 26 August, 2015, 05:53:49 AM
Sorry, if I offended, okay.
No offense at all. Truth be told there are hicks or hillbillies in every state. Here in Pennsylvania where I live, all around the cities people are "cultured" but then outside the cities the lay turns to countryside really fast and you find hillbillies everywhere (see the original Dawn of the Dead - that's exactly how it is). Even New York state is like this.
LOD, how long have you work for the US tourist office?
I'm paid by post count.
Here in the Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA for short) town called Kingston we have no fewer than 37 pizza parlors, 42, hoagie joints, 63 dive bars, and 2 comic book shop that sell 2000AD (in monthly bundles). Come visit.
Are there any zombies?
PA is the birthplace of the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead.
We do have NotLD tours around Halloween-time. Sadly, the original NotLD house is now gone to the last foundation stone.
Keep the questions coming, lads. You'll make me rich.
When MC1 is built what sector will you be in?
What parts of the pCursed Earth are not radio-active?
Surely, it's not entirely the way, thinking of that Tom Cruise film called Oblivion.
It seems that there is gonna be a web mini series that will be set on a plane. You heard it, Zombies on a plane. If you want to know more, just google away!
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 31 August, 2015, 05:16:33 PM
It seems that there is gonna be a web mini series that will be set on a plane. You heard it, Zombies on a plane. If you want to know more, just google away!
Erm it been done; World War Z
Cancel my last everyone!
There's no need to watch this web series now :-X
and before that there was Flight of the Living Dead...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780583/
It's shit! :lol:
I've seen it :'(
But World War Z was at high speed so it would be interesting to see how they did very slow turn of zombie on the length of flight?
So whatcha fink? While I can watch the chef from Treme/Madame from SoA in anything, I found the son a bit too close to home for it all to be enjoyable. The whole set up and characterisation was okay... I take it they aren't sopposed to be likeable people?
Some nice tension with the whole normality going on around the outbreak, will keep watching but with my finger hovering over the FF button.
That unpopular eh? :D
I like the idea of a show set during the fall of civilisation. I don't like that while its happening the show concentrates on the inside of a shop with the shutters down so you don't actually get to see what's happening to the world. I know that's a cheaper way of doing but FFS if you cant afford to show it then don't bother at all.
Quote from: Satanist on 04 September, 2015, 04:04:32 PM
I like the idea of a show set during the fall of civilisation. I don't like that while its happening the show concentrates on the inside of a shop with the shutters down so you don't actually get to see what's happening to the world. I know that's a cheaper way of doing but FFS if you cant afford to show it then don't bother at all.
Agreed, they should have filmed it in Glasgow like World War Z
Quote from: Proudhuff on 04 September, 2015, 03:26:25 PM
That unpopular eh? :D
I would watch it but we only have council telly.
That was a much better episode and when the cavalry arrive and seemingly know what to do, it makes you wonder how it still falls apart.
I almost totally missed the last two episodes and I'm pretty sure about that. Because I was ready top watch one of those and just nodded off to sleep, and now, the second episode is being just about now.
What luck and I though it was time for the fourth episode.
Just not getting into this series. Last few episode I have watched don't register in my memory....
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 14 September, 2015, 04:50:37 AM
That was a much better episode and when the cavalry arrive and seemingly know what to do, it makes you wonder how it still falls apart.
Due to a 'taping' blunder I missed that one and went straight into the quarantine episode which would confuse a stupid person ... and it did. will try and find the missing one on line
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 September, 2015, 03:58:31 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 14 September, 2015, 04:50:37 AM
That was a much better episode and when the cavalry arrive and seemingly know what to do, it makes you wonder how it still falls apart.
Due to a 'taping' blunder I missed that one and went straight into the quarantine episode which would confuse a stupid person ... and it did. will try and find the missing one on line
I'm not confused....
sky very kindly let me see the first episode for free then wanted me to pay for the amc channel...I must say judging by the first one I'm really not that bothered. might give it a go if it comes to another channel down the line though.
Finally caught up with this.
My initial thoughts were "Where are the zombies?"
But I thought it built well to a satisfying climax and Ruben Blades was great. I'll watch more if I get the chance.
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 04 September, 2015, 05:38:56 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 04 September, 2015, 03:26:25 PM
That unpopular eh? :D
I would watch it but we only have council telly.
Hey, we have murdoch telly and I still can't watch it. Bloody BT! Make someone happy, strangle Buzby!
One of my colleagues watched it and said he spent the whole time cliche spotting. Think I'll wait 'til it comes out on Channel 5.