It's been incorrectly touted as a prequel to The Walking Dead, but in a new interview, Fear the Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has revealed the show truly will be a companion series with a timeline that eventually matches up to the one its predecessor has embarked on.

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Kirkman spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the impending series, and while he confirmed once again that the series does pick up as the outbreak first begins, whereas TWD picked up three months into it when Rick (Andrew Lincoln) awoke from a coma, but said things would ramp up quickly.

"We're very early," Kirkman said. "But if you think about the way a zombie outbreak would happen, it would happen very organically. It would be happening for a while behind the scenes. In pockets of civilization, there would be news stories that didn't really make sense and didn't seem connected. And that's kind of where we pick things up. There are a lot of things on the news, there's a lot of chatter and paranoia and concern. And yet the vast majority of the population is ignoring these things and talking about their daily lives, and that's kind of where we pick things up. And things ramp up very quickly from there."

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Kirkman then added that the timeline would align at some point to the earlier seasons of the first show, meaning it isn't exactly a prequel.

"I will say that it will definitely progress," Kirkman said. "I will say that I don't consider this show to be a prequel to The Walking Dead, because there will be a point where a certain episode of this show will line up with season 2 of The Walking Dead, and a certain episode of this show will line up with season 3 of The Walking Dead. So we will be progressing through time to the point that we do pass the initial days of the outbreak. But how fast it is that we get there? That's just going to have to remain a mystery."

Fear The Walking Dead premieres later this summer on AMC.

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