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In the midst of season two, Erickson caught his breath long enough to share the craft of writing the spin-off of one of cable television’s most popular hit series.įor some screenwriters, the opportunity to spin-off one of the most successful television series in recent history would be the opportunity of a lifetime. The similarities between the two Dead series are not only inevitable, but mandatory, says Erickson, but the differences are bountiful and entirely on purpose as the show’s seven million weekly viewers can attest. The Walking Dead is a kindred spirit to Lord of the Flies in myriad ways, while Fear the Walking Dead-a parallel world/backstory, timeline-speaking-is a strange brew in its own ways, dread-infused as frequently for its human decay as for its spooky threats, part The Road, part Ordinary People. Just as The Walking Dead resurrected a genre gnawed to bits by simple, base drivel by lifting the zombie trope and plopping it into a mysteriously savagely-dismantled, Survivor-like arena, peppered with existential angst, meditations on codependence and the challenges of intimacy, and of course, great Tabasco-like dollops of gore, Fear the Walking Dead, too, has more on its mind than things that go bump in the night. If that doesn’t sound like your father’s “grrrrrr, braaaaaaains” zombie fare, that’s because it’s not.
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But we love zombies because they are empty in ways that we aren’t, which allows us to stuff them full of all the things we fear or hate or are scared of.” “The best of us-even the worst of us-are not that simple. “Look, people are complicated,” Erickson says on a “break” somehow wedged into his 24/7 responsibilities as FTWD bigwig. If Dave Erickson, co-creator-with Walking Dead, uh, brain trust Robert Kirkman-and showrunner of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, ever got two-knuckles deep into Ayn Rand’s sprawling, ideologue Atlas Shrugged, he’d probably give a moment to pause over the Russian-born philosopher’s comment that “the purpose of man’s life… is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.” Though Erickson only cozied up to the living dead recently, about three years actually-when Kirkman asked him to collaborate on The Walking Dead television spin-off-the tapestry he and the superlative FTWD creative team weave is Exhibit A through Zed in defense of man and his purpose in life. Put all of your darkest stuff, the stuff that’s eating you alive, into a zombie- which is a living creature you can then kill. Screenplays of the 21st Century (so far)Īudiences can inject zombies with any phobia or fear or anxiety they might have.
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