Enkele dagen geleden is de pilot van de nieuwe zombie apocalypse op de Amerikaanse TV zender SyFy uitgezonden. Deze kan ik het beste omschrijven als een low budget versie van The Walking Dead met alleen maar actie en totaal geen soap taferelen of kut kinderen als Karl die niet luisteren. Daarnaast zitten er een shitload aan b-movie acteurs in en kijkt lekker weg. De maker Karl Schaefer had dit interview waarbij uiteraard de vergelijking met The Walking Dead ter sprake kwam.

So distinguishing ourselves from that. The fact that we're a very low-budget, run-and-gun version of that show. Making ourselves original and standing out, and playing out the mission that they're on and traveling the show. We're in a different state and location every episode, even though we're shooting it all up in Washington, in Spokane. So I think the main thing was just making it funny, original and not disappointing to an audience that has a real gold standard to compare it to. We had to earn our right to exist.

Our characters live in a real world where zombie movies existed. People call zombies 'zombies.' They're not dancing around. In The Walking Dead they sort of act like it was a complete surprise to everybody what they were ... our guys actually argue about the difference between Romero and Max Brooks' rules. They live in a world where The Walking Dead existed in their past.