With this one, there are slightly more involved aspects of demonic possession and things like that. In “Walking Dead,” you have to go, “Well I guess dead people come back to life now.” Aside from that, everything else is completely realistic. What are the struggles in making “Outcast” and its magical elements feel real and tangible? “Outcast” was definitely a little bit more of taking what we know from exorcist fiction and demonic possession, and trying to tie them all together and make something logical come out of it. It’s something I probably figured out as I was going along with “Walking Dead.” As far as zombie rules and mythology, there’s a lot of stuff in pop culture that’s already established, but “Walking Dead” was kind of a process of picking and choosing the best aspects of zombie fiction and deciding what we pull in and what we don’t. If you do your job right and construct a well-rounded universe, the stories to a certain extent almost write themselves.ĭid you know that going into “Walking Dead”? The rules and the mythology in these stories, that’s the real legwork. The demon stuff is just icing on the cake.ĭo you enjoy setting up the basic supernatural rules you have for the show? That’s the kind of stuff that interests me.
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Kirkman is excited to explore the giant world he’s constructed with vomiting demons, possessed housewives and inexplicable evil goo.īut how can this series stand out from the current crop of possession thrillers? What has the executive producer Kirkman learned in the six years since his first successful comic-to-TV adaptation? And how will those lessons affect this new thriller, which stars Patrick Fugit as the reluctant exorcist Kyle Barnes? It deals with supernatural threats in a realistic manner.
People are expecting big things from “Outcast,” which has all the tenets of a Kirkman success: It’s set in the South. Meanwhile, he penned several new comic titles, including the supernatural series “Outcast,” which is also Kirkman’s newest television project. The AMC series was so successful he made a spinoff series, “Fear the Walking Dead.” That’s when he launched the television show “The Walking Dead” based on his “Walking Dead” comics. A lot has changed since Robert Kirkman arrived in Hollywood from his native Kentucky in 2010.