Warning: This article contains spoilers forFear the Walking Deadseries finale.
The final season ofFear the Walking Deadwas about big returns from the seemingly dead.
Then it wasDaniel Sharmans Troy Otto presumed dead via hammer in season 3 who somehow made his way back.
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ series finale.Seth F. Johnson/AMC
So how did theFearteam get their former star back on board?
Well, that was the showrunners dream, Kim Dickens tells EW.
And they had no way of knowing because Alycia was gone.
Alycia Debnam-Carey and Kim Dickens on the ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ series finale.Seth F. Johnson/AMC
She was on to other things.
She had run her course withFearand her character.
It was then that showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss had to call in the big guns.
Kim Dickens and Alycia Debnam-Carey on the ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ series finale.Seth F. Johnson/AMC
It’s just something she really wanted to do.
How did that come together?
IAN GOLDBERG:I think Kenneth coined it the Sgt.
Colman Domingo as Victor Strand.Seth F. Johnson/AMC
Pepper’s title card because of all the people that we used.
It’s what the story wanted to be.
So really we just crafted the whole season with that in mind.
Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, Daniel Sharman as Troy Otto.Seth F. Johnson/AMC
We got lucky, but we did plan for it.
There was a lot of meticulous planning.
What was the backup plan if the schedules didn’t line up?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: It’s funny, AMC asked us the same thing.
IAN GOLDBERG: Andrew and I would’ve flown to Australia.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Yeah, we would’ve dragged her on a plane.
So why end with them heading back to Los Angeles?
You brought a lot of characters back this season with Madison, and Troy, and Alicia.
I was wondering if we were going to see Althea pop up again at all.
IAN GOLDBERG: We did consider it.
That was Al’s question.
And that feels like a vital element that Al brought to the show that lives on.
Were you guys actually on set for the finale?
IAN GOLDBERG: Not only were we on set, we are in the finale.
that are me and Andrew.
I’m the walker who goes after Dove and Ian is just behind me.
What did it feel like for you guys to wrap the series?
It was when we were shooting out at P.A.D.R.E..
It was the final scenes for five or six of our cast members.
So it was a series of goodbyes and they were all super emotional and surreal.
And then there was the standing on set for the final shot, and that was another emotional thing.
And even talking to you now is another period on the end of the journey ofFear.
So it’s been a lot of tears and a lot of joy.
And I think just those interactions are the thing I’m going to miss the most.
What was the last shot you guys wrapped the series on?
IAN GOLDBERG: It was a shot on the shore of walkers coming off the barge.
Whats the craziestFear the Walking Deadidea you had that you never ended up doing for whatever reason?
And we talked about it, and then we talked to our line producer about it.
He basically threatened to quit if we even pursued that idea.
Now, they wouldn’t have been actually talking like Milo and Otis, right?
IAN GOLDBERG: There might’ve been aLook Who’s Talkingstyle voiceover.
The other one that we talked very seriously about doing was a live episode.
Although, if I recall, it was going to be an Al-centric story a journalist broadcasting.
Did any of that make it into another episode?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: It may have morphed into the documentary episode we did in season 5.
Some of the ideas might’ve made it over there.
