"It Belongs to the Audience" - Why Fear the Walking Dead was a Risk for Cliff Curtis
Cliff Curtis is set to reappear in the upcoming season of Fear the Walking Dead, a spin-off from The Walking Dead, itself an adaptation from a comic book, which Curtis admits had no immediate appeal initially.
"Who wants to stand second in line to a franchise really because it's a huge risk. The show doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the audience, and it's been really difficult for them to view whatever we do without the lens of the other show, so we're not going to get a clean run of it.
"There was a lot of reasons not to do it," he said, "but I read the script and the script was nothing like I imagined. It was very low-key, low-fi family drama. I was like, "What are you guys thinking? There's no zombies in it!" We have whole episodes with no zombies and if we do, they're somewhere over there.
"It's very disorienting, but I think to an extent, one of the biggest requests was that we skipped a lot of that period about what happened. Rather than doing a prequel, they decided to set it up with a totally new show."
He then compared it to its parent show, saying that it's nothing like the other. "...I knew that it was going to be difficult for people to adjust going backwards in time and understanding that the characters don't know anything that you guys know. It's a real challenge and that's een the biggest challenge for the first six episodes."
But he's understandably confident in its audience, which has seen huge numbers heading into season 2, which begins April 10.
Source: Comingsoon
