For us, what was important was, we wanted the audience - and, more importantly, Madison, Alicia and Nick - to feel like, “Ah, we have a moment to breathe,” then take that away and ideally leave the audience breathless, at least for a moment. The obvious way to go would have been for him to have his hero moment in the premiere and then die before the hour was over. TVLINE | I thought it was pretty sneaky of you, letting him survive everything from Troy’s “science experiments” to the walker pit in the first episode, only to kill him at the top of the second. There was a version of the story that extended deeper into the season, but ultimately, we pulled it back and did it in Episode 2, really because of what it did for the rest of the characters going forward. And the only way to do that is to return Nick to Madison, which he does. So for him, it becomes very much a question of atonement and redemption. He’d broken his promise to Liza - he hadn’t protected their boy. Coming off of Chris’ death, Travis had failed. Travis’ whole trajectory at that point was to do for his surrogate son what he’d failed to do for his biological one. TVLINE | Talk me through the decision to kill off Travis.įollowing Chris’ death, I think death was inevitable. Meanwhile, Strand got himself banished from the hotel by Elena and Hector for calming the masses by pretending to be a doctor - but not before being made to bear witness to Ilene’s suicide. By the time Alicia and Jake made it to the ranch with Luci, Charlie was walker food, and it was a toss-up as to whether Maddie or Jeremiah ( Deadwood’s Dayton Callie) had a bigger hate-on for the other. En route with Jake, godsister Charlie, Alicia and an unconscious Luciana in Episode 2, “The New Frontier,” Travis was shot in the neck when an unknown someone - our guess - opened fire down below, and leapt from the helicopter to avoid endangering his traveling companions by turning in mid-air. EDT on AMC.In “Eye of the Beholder,” Madison at last was reunited with Nick, and, after getting a handle on survivalist Jeremiah Otto’s sons, good guy Jake ( The Following’s Sam Underwood) and sick f- Troy ( Teen Wolf’s Daniel Sharman), everybody said a tense, momentary “Bygones!” about their previous, near-lethal interactions and headed for the Ottos’ ranch. “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 3, which stars Kim Dickens (Madison), Cliff Curtis (Travis), Frank Dillane (Nick), Alycia Debnam-Carey (Alicia), Colman Domingo (Strand), Mercedes Mason (Ofelia), among many others, premieres on Sunday, June 4 at 9 p.m.
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2 drama series in ad-supported cable, behind only ‘The Walking Dead.’ We are also incredibly excited that Dave has chosen to stay in the AMC family to pursue his next passion project.
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“We’re beyond grateful for Dave’s amazing work on the first three seasons of ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’” said AMC and Sundance TV president of original programming Joel Stillerman in a statement last March. Erickson will also segue to a multiple-year development deal with AMC, in which he will develop new projects for AMC Studios and other networks in the AMC Networks portfolio, including Sundance TV. READ: “Fear the Walking Dead” EP teases Dayton Callie’s Season 3 roleĪlthough Erickson will be replaced by incoming showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg in Season 4, Erickson will remain as an executive producer for the AMC series. “I’m looking forward to September and October as a time where I can refill the well a little bit and make plans for the next thing.” We wrap in July, but I’m still delivering and won’t be done until August or September,” Erickson said. Writing on Season 3 is now finished, but the production on the installment won’t end until mid-July. You sacrifice quite a bit to keep all of these balls up in the air.” Frankly, you end up not spending as much time with your kids as you would like. “When you’re running a show, inevitably it’s all-consuming. “It’s something that’s been on my mind for a time,” he told the news outlet. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Erickson revealed that he decided to step down from his role as showrunner to spend more time with his children. But what was the reason behind his decision to exit the zombie drama? Dave Erickson, who developed “Fear the Walking Dead” alongside “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman, is set to vacate his position as showrunner at the end of the upcoming Season 3.