Update: Fear the Walking Dead’s Los-Angeles-shot 90-minute premiere set a cable TV record with 10.1 million viewers, including 6.3 million in the key 18-49 demographic.
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Fear begins here.
Fear the Walking Dead shot its premiere in east L.A. and then five episodes in Vancouver-as-L.A. from May 10th to around June 19th after which it returned to L.A. to shoot exteriors.
Showrunner Dave Erickson told Entertainment Weekly that it was important that Fear the Walking Dead feel like an Los Angeles show — “It’s the side of LA that we establish in the pilot, and it’s the place where our heroes live, and it was a dynamic sense and a vibrancy to what is for us mostly east Los Angeles, and it’s layered, and it’s diverse. We were able to find places in Vancouver that worked beautifully, but when it came down to sort of the ground zero of our family, it was important that we went back to where we started essentially and came back to 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.
Next week’s episode features L.A. riot scenes filmed in Vancouver, including the first day of shooting here behind the Bentall Centre downtown.
Related: Fear The Walking Dead Films Cliff Curtis in Vancouver Business District.:
Lorenzo James Henrie, Cliff Curtis and Elizabeth Rodriguez.
Cliff Curtis.
That feeling you get when you see zombies taking on your buddy Shahram’s shop on Walking Dead. @yvrshoots #Vancouver pic.twitter.com/vhiQpWMnTB
— ʇɹǝqoɹ Jago (@rjjago) August 24, 2015
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as East L.A.
Cliff Curtis and Ruben Blades as Daniel Salazar outside Salazar’s Cuts.
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside dressed for filming.
Vancouver Chinatown served as Los Angels for Fear The Walking Dead @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/TDEcXfALAN
— Ryan Adams (@DivisionVintage) May 22, 2015
Oceanic Plaza as fictional Gabrielinos Plaza in east L.A.
Related: Riot Rehearsal in Vancouver’s Oceanic Plaza.
Cliff Curtis on set.
Cliff Curtis under the scaffolding that’s tipped over.
Surrey School District Building as Sisters of Mercy Hospital.
Related: Fear The Walking Dead Shootings in Surrey as Los Angeles Hospital.
Daniel (Ruben Blades) and his daughter Ofilia (Mercedes Mason).
Police shooting at walkers in hospital parking lot.
