We Now Have the Title of ‘The Walking Dead’ Spin-Off

You can rule out The Walking Dead: LA which kind of bums me out.

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman just posted on his Twitter — because, again, this is 2015 — the title of The Walking Dead spin-off set to take place in the once-bustling Los Angeles. Enter: Fear the Walking Dead.

IT'S OFFICIAL! The walking dead companion show on AMC is called FEAR THE WALKING DEAD! Expect more news very soon! #FearTheWalkingDead

— Robert Kirkman (@RobertKirkman) March 27, 2015

Unlike Better Call Saul, which had to show me was good before it could sell me on the idea, a spin-off of The Walking Dead makes perfect sense. I didn’t feel like exploring Breaking Bad again, it felt unnecessary and then Better Call Saul blew me away.

The Walking Dead, however, that I can believe has a big world worth exploring, because the very premise is about exploring the world. I get that it’s a metaphor for American manifest destiny, but the southern locale of The Walking Dead has exhausted me and I’m dying to see how the rest of the world responded to he disease. What is it like in Shanghai? Chicago? Rio de Janeiro? India is one of the most densely-populated countries, there have to be cities still bustling, so busy you can’t even tell the zombie apocalypse happened. Imagine seeing that.

But Los Angeles is the location of this spin-off, which I’m sure was partly chosen for convenience on the staff and production. But how to make entire blocks of LA desolate? That will be interesting to see.