Fans hoping to see a "Fear the Walking Dead" crossover with the main show will be disappointed as showrunner Dave Erickson said there aren't any plans for that in the first season.
"There are no crossover plans right now. I would love to see those stories conflate at some point, but there are no plans to do so," Erickson said at the Television Critics Association panel that included producers David Alpert and Adam Davidson, as reported by Variety.
There won't even be Easter eggs or character references during the spinoff's six-episode first season. But Alpert did tease that that may change when season two premieres.
"There might be an Easter egg or two - it's possible," he said.
Instead of a "Fear the Walking Dead" crossover, Erickson said "catching up to the original show" is their priority. The spinoff is set prior to the events of "Walking Dead" although the showrunner did say its first season won't end with Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) waking up from his coma.
"By [the] time we end season one, there's still a window of time and exploration that we have some real estate left. We come to realize things have changed but there's still the whole world... [they're] still insulated of the greater truth of what's going on," Erickson said as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
That story arc is supposedly reserved for season two although the "Fear" boss is open to season three exploring that story.
And even though "Fear" is set against the start of the viral outbreak, the showrunner said audiences won't see the reason it began in the first place.
Instead, audiences "will get a sense of first responders when they went sideways and what they did to protect their families," Alpert said.
As it stands, a "Fear The Walking Dead" crossover with "The Walking Dead" is off the books for the spinoff's first season premiering on August 23 on AMC.
