COMIC-CON: World Premiere FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Trailer Features Vancouver-as-L.A. Riot Scenes

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Fear Begins Here. The Walking Dead companion series Fear the Walking Dead released a full trailer and announced its premiere date — August 23rd — at today’s San Diego Comic Con panel.

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Set in Los Angeles, the six-episode companion series starts earlier than The Walking Dead with the zombie outbreak in another part of the United States told through a blended family: widowed high school guidance counsellor Madison (Kim Dickens) and teacher Travis (Cliff Curtis), who’ve moved in together with their children — Madison’s druggy, dropout son Nick (Frank Dillane) and academic standout daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam Carey) and Travis’s angry son Chris (Lorenzo James Henrie) who’s mad at his Dad for splitting from his Mom, Liza (Elizabeth Rodriguez). Other characters include Alicia’s boyfriend Matt (Maestro Harrell), Daniel Salazar (Ruben Blades), his wife Griselda (Patricia Reyes Spindola) and his daughter Ofilia (Mercedes Mason). People don’t know what’s happening but there are shootings, fires and riots breaking out across the country. Over time the companion series catches up to the full zombie apocalypse of The Walking Dead.

Fear the Walking Dead shot its pilot in L.A. and then five episodes in Vancouver-as-L.A. from May 10th to around June 19th and then returned to L.A. to film more exteriors for those five episodes where it wrapped yesterday.

First day in Vancouver. Behind the Bentall Centre.