Fear The Waking Dead Included A Homage To 28 Days Later

AMC's Fear the Walking Dead made its premiere last night, and like The Walking Dead, it will not [...]

AMC's Fear the Walking Dead made its premiere last night, and like The Walking Dead, it will not will not refer to the undead as zombies. The Walking Dead has referred to the undead as walkers, roamers, lurkers, geeks, or biters, but Fear the Walking Dead is using a moniker inspired by a 2002 film that successfully reinvented the zombie genre.

"Right now, playing off of the idea that they think this is viral and something you can catch that's transmitted, they start to call them "the infected," which is a nod to 28 Days Later," showrunner Dave Erickson told The Hollywood Reporter. "We don't get into a place in the story where they're going to start throwing names. Whether it's biters, roamers or walkers, our characters in season one still think these people are human and sick for a big chunk of time. "Infected" made story sense for us, and as things evolve, we'll come up with new names."

The post-apocalyptic British horror film 28 Days Later was directed by Danny Boyle and starred Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston.

Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and English teacher Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis) have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure of blending two families while dealing with resentful, escapist, and strung out children takes a back seat when society begins to break down. A forced evolution, a necessary survival of the fittest takes hold, and our dysfunctional family must either reinvent themselves or

The "So Close, Yet So Far" episode of Fear The Walking Dead airs on Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 8 PM ET on AMC.

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