After more than a year of murmurings about a spinoff/prequel/companion series to the network’s monster hit The Walking Dead, AMC have launched Fear the Walking Dead Sunday with a 90-minute premiere episode that will finally give fans of the Robert Kirkman-created universe a glimpse at the series stocked with new characters and a pre-Rick Grimes view on the zombie apocalypse.

　　以热门美剧《行尸走肉》续集/前传/衍生系列身份热议一年多之久的《行尸之惧》终于要上映了!AMC于周日进行了90分钟的首映，带领剧迷们进入Robert Kirkman(原版漫画创作人)的世界。故事以瑞克·格莱姆斯(行尸走肉中的角色)前生的视角展开叙述，配上全新的人物，定能让大家感觉不一样的震撼。

　　Kirkman created the new series with Sons of Anarchy writer and producer Dave Erickson, who serves as Fear’s showrunner. Erickson talks to Yahoo TV about the focus and goals of Fear’s first season,

　　《行尸之惧》的主创是Kirkman(编剧)和Dave Erickson(《混乱之子》的原著者兼制作人)。Erickson跟雅虎TV聊了聊该剧第一季的看点和目标。

　　Critics have seen the first couple of episodes, and fans have seen several trailers — how does it feel to finally get some feedback on the show?

　　剧评人看了前几集，粉丝看了预告后，反响如何呢?

　　I only read the good reviews, so I’m not sure what most people are saying, but it’s interesting… it’s exciting. I think the fans, at least from my understanding and my experience when we went to San Diego for Comic-Con, there is an anticipation. Fans are excited to see it, so I was encouraged by that. I heard stories from [The Walking Dead producer] Gale [Anne Hurd] saying that at the first Comic-Con for the original show, you had people who were incredibly devoted to the comic, and the attitude was, “OK, how are you going to screw this up?” And of course, they didn’t, and maybe that’s earned us a little bit of good faith with the fanbase.

　　我只看了好评部分，所以不能确定是不是大部分人都这样觉得，但无论怎样，剧情会十分有趣啦。。。令人兴奋的那种。我们在今年圣迭哥的Comic-con进行了宣传，场面非常火爆，让我感到剧迷们是期待这部剧的，他们就是我们前进的动力。Gale(行尸走肉制片人)跟我说，今年Comic-con上，刚开始他们看到我们好拼地工作时是这样想的“看你们怎么砸场子”，但结果显然我们没有，并且还积攒了一定的人气。

　　The characters in Fear are compelling, and we learn a lot about them right away. It is very much a family drama, as well as a zombie apocalypse drama — how important was that to what you wanted the show to be?

　　《行尸之惧》的角色全都十分抢眼，并且能够让观众很快地对他们进行了解，可以算是部带有丧尸元素的家庭剧——这是不是很关键的一点呢?

　　I think the benefit, because it’s just the onset [of the outbreak], is that it did allow us to take the problems that this family would have had regardless of if there was a zombie around the corner, and play to that drama, which only gets exacerbated by what’s happening. It’s a pacing issue, and it was, “How quickly do we want the apocalypse to start, how quickly do we want our family to become aware of it?” That was part of the balancing act over the course of the first couple of episodes, so that was challenging. Also, for an audience who comes to the table knowing everything, knowing what the walkers are, finding that fine line where they’re leaning in because they’re concerned and they want our characters to figure out what’s going on, and not getting to a place where they just want to slap [the characters] and say, “OK, haven’t you seen Dawn of the Dead?”

　　我觉得这是我们受益的一点，因为在丧尸大爆发的前部分，我们会看到剧里的这一家人并没意识到丧尸来了~这样能够使丧尸大爆发的部分更具震撼力，同时也是个节奏问题，我们须考虑“多快切入末日?多久才让我们的家庭意识到末日的来临?“这些工作需在前几集就调控好，对我们来说有一定的挑战性。同样，观众是无所不知的，他们将很清楚哪些是丧尸，并且能够发现它们的要害。因为他们被带入剧中，期待着主角们知道什么正在进行，而不是乱跑，去那些他们想甩耳光(给主角们)的地方，逼他们说”好吧，你们这些傻逼没看过《活死人的黎明》吗?“

　　In The Walking Dead TV universe, we don’t know much about how the government deals with the apocalypse, how the infrastructure breaks down, etc. I’m assuming that’s something we’ll see throughout the first season of Fear.

　　《行尸走肉》系列没有阐述太多政府在末世中的作为，社会基质是怎样崩塌的，等等。但这些我猜在《行尸之惧》中会有所补充吧。

　　We will. We never tell the story from the perspective of the CDC or the generals or the politicians. It’s not going to be World War Z, but we will see a military presence. We will see the effort to stop the contagion, the effort to contain it. We’ll do it consistently through our family’s filter, but, yeah, absolutely. We wanted to present the outbreak in a way that felt credible… we refer to the authorities a number of times, and the expectation is that there’s a solution and they will come in and they will fix it. We’ll see them attempt to do that, and then, of course, we’ll see them fail.

　　会的。我们不会以疾控中心，将军或者政客的视角来展开剧情。这不是丧尸大战，但可以看到军队为控制灾害的努力。我们将以剧中的小家庭来展开故事，尽量让观众觉得丧尸大爆发的逻辑真实可信。我们有多次提到政府当局，所有人都期望他们有所作为，拿出可行的措施来解决丧尸问题。结果是，他们努力了，然后。。。失败了。

　　With The Walking Dead, we’re thrown into the action and then throughout the seasons we’ve gotten to know the characters and their backgrounds. With Fear, we’re getting to know the characters right away, but there’s still obviously a lot we don’t know. Will you use flashbacks to tell some of those things?

　　看《行尸走肉》的时候，观众置身于一季又一季的剧情中去慢慢了解每个角色和其背景。而在《行尸之惧》中，我们能够迅速定义角色，当然，也会有许多不知道的悬念。你要采用倒叙的手法来叙述吗?

　　Yeah. Well, not necessarily through the first season, but, I mean, Nick, his father died when he was 13. His father died in a car wreck six years ago, so the interesting thing about both Nick and [his sister] Alicia [played by Alycia Debnam-Carey] is they both have sort of a fatalistic streak. The other interesting thing for Nick specifically is, he’s been living on the fringes for quite a while, and in many respects he’s been living his own apocalypse and now the world’s actually catching up with him.

　　对。但是第一季中不需要。我是说尼克的父亲在他十三岁的时候去世了，六年前死于一场车祸，所以，很神奇的一点是，尼克和他的妹妹(Alycia Debnam-Carey饰)会遭受同样的宿命。还有一点奇特的是，尼克活在生与死的边缘某种程度上意味着他活在自己的末日里，而世界的末日紧随其后。

　　Also, a number of our characters are from another place. They’re not from Los Angeles, and they’ve come here for a very specific reason, or they’ve come here to escape who they used to be. That’s something that we’ll explore with the Salazar family. It’s something we’ll explore in Madison [played by Kim Dickens], and her background. I definitely want to explore the backstories of the characters and use that to flesh out the present day stories.

　　剧中的部分角色从另一个地方而来。他们不来自洛杉矶，而是由于这样那样的原因聚集于此，或者是要逃避原先的生活。这些都需要我们跟随Salazar一家探索，探索Madison(Kim Dickens饰)和她的背景。我十分想借着这些角色的背景素材来充实整个故事。

　　We have six episodes coming in the first season. You suggested there’s no rush to get into the full apocalypse, but where do you want to be at the end of Season 1?

　　第一季分六集。前面你提到并不想立即切入末日的部分，那么第一季的结局你希望是怎样的呢?

　　There is a tendency in the zombie genre — if it’s a film, by the end of the first reel — you know what zombies are and you know how to kill them, and you know it’s OK to kill them, and that’s the reality of the show, or the reality of the film. I think what Rick Grimes’s coma in TWD was, to me, was a brilliant narrative device,

　　because I loved him waking up so late and realizing that in the time he was asleep, the world has disappeared. That’s incredibly compelling, but he got up to speed pretty quickly. We have an opportunity to explore things that are not normally seen in this genre. By the end of the season, our characters will know that it’s the end of the world as they know it, and they will know that things have changed, not irrevocably, but there’s still a journey they will set off on by the end. I think they will come to realize that the apocalypse is definitely upon them.

　　丧尸剧有着这样的走向——如果是电影，第一部让你知道丧尸是什么，怎样消灭他们，并树立他们确实可以被消灭的信念。这是这类秀，这类电影的真实情况。我觉得《行尸走肉》里让Rick Grimes昏迷是个非常棒的构思，因为我爱死他醒来太晚，然后发现在他睡着的时候整个世界都变了的样子。十分精彩，可惜，他马上就起来了。本剧中观众有机会去探索那些丧尸剧中不常见的东西。第一季末，主角们已意识到他们的生活遭到了彻底的毁坏，他们将在第一季末出发。我想他们会渐渐明白这一切是因为末日即将降临。

　　Put it this way: Their point of view is still quite limited, and it’s very specific. That was by design. We wanted to insulate them in such a way that we could maintain the family drama and that narrative, and then also continue to slow burn the realization that the world is over. So I would not say that the end of the season is the moment when Rick wakes up; in fact, we have quite a bit of runway going into

　　Season 2 to catch up with that point. I think there’s a world of story that we didn’t see on the original show that we get to explore going into the next season, with questions of “How do you survive?” and “How do you find food?” and “How do you live when you’re now completely off the grid without cell phones?”

　　这么说吧：虽然透露的看点不多，但还是十分具体。故意的~我们想把他们以某种方式隔离起来，然后继续描述家庭剧的部分，再慢慢地放大末日的氛围。所以我不会告诉你，第一季末就是Rick醒来啦;其实这些是进入第二季的预热部分啦。下一季中的未知世界需要我们带着问题探索，比如，“怎么活下来的?”“怎么找到食物的?”“没网没手机怎么生活的?”

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