All of the early reports on the spinoff of ‘The Walking Dead’ has placed it as a prequel to the series that has blown away every other genre series on television ratings wise. While it will still begin this way it now sounds as if the new series won’t just be a prequel. Here’s what the creator, Robert Kirkman, had to say about it:
The timeline is taking place [in] a little bit earlier time frame than the original show. Rick Grimes woke up from a coma and was like, ‘Oh, man, zombies; weird!’ We’re going to possibly see that unfold a little more in the other show. But I wouldn’t call it ‘prequel’ because the entirety of the show is not going take place before [‘The Walking Dead’]. It will eventually form a path running concurrently.
One thing that we’re doing with the new show that we’re trying with everything is it’s not derivative. It’s standing on its own. You can watch it by itself and get your own experience. But if you are watching both shows, there are things like, ‘Oh, they discovered this, or they discovered that in a different way.’ There are a lot of things about ‘The Walking Dead’ world these characters have to learn or figure out to get by. And there may be some things that are discovered in the companion show that haven’t been discovered in the other show yet.
It’s not going to relate to the comics at all. From the beginning of the show one thing we’ve heard is, ‘What’s going on over here or there?’ So the intent of the new show is to expand that world and show another corner of the United States and what’s happening there.
Via: Dread Central.
