Fear The Walking Dead, the upcoming AMC series spinoff to the popular gore-fest The Walking Dead, was filmed entirely in Vancouver.
Starring Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, Sons of Anarchy), Cliff Curtis (Missing, Gang Related), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm) and Executive Produced by Dave Erickson (Marco Polo, Sons of Anarchy), Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero and David Alpert, Fear the Walking Dead premieres this summer on August 23rd, with a second season airing in 2016 (which will be filmed in Hollywood).
According to The Canadian Press, producers built three different sound stages over two months to showcase the developing of a zombie apocalypse. “They have found some areas that work, that double [for LA], but for the most part we are on stages here,” said Dickens. Added star Lorenzo James Henrie, “There are a lot of pockets in Vancouver that are very Los Feliz, Silver Lake, downtown Los Angeles… we shot a riot scene [in downtown Vancouver] that looked exactly like downtown LA. I think it’s completely authentic.”
Dickens later said, “It’s an incredible fan base, The Walking Dead fan base, it is really passionate and local and I just hope we please them” (CP).
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