AMC has released the official Season 1 poster for Fear the Walking Dead, the highly-anticipated spinoff series crawling to television this August. As you’ll see below (click to see it bigger), two clueless dudes play b-ball while a walker makes its way toward them. Typical L.A. folks, can’t see trouble until it’s too late! (This message brought to you by a native New Yorker.)
A companion series to “The Walking Dead,” the #1 show on television among adults 18-49, “Fear the Walking Dead” is executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero, David Alpert and showrunner David Erickson and produced by AMC Studios. Co-Executive Producer Adam Davidson, who directed the pilot, and who also directed the second and third episodes.
Fear the Walking Dead takes us back to the beginning of the zombie apocalypse – a time when the world was changing rapidly for reasons unknown, before anyone understood exactly what was happening, when life as everyone knew it was upended and altered in ways no one could have ever imagined.
Fear the Walking Dead premieres Sunday, August 23rd. If you missed the trailer, see it HERE.