Although the much anticipated “Fear the Walking Dead” has so far been billed as a very different zombie experience from the already plagued-out world of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” both programs will share a bit of the same time line.

Talking with Entertainment Weekly, show creator Robert Kirkman clarified that the new show will not be a prequel.

“I will say that I don’t consider this show to be a prequel to 'The Walking Dead,' because there will be a point where a certain episode of this show will line up with Season 2 of 'The Walking Dead,' and a certain episode of this show will line up with Season 3 of 'The Walking Dead,'" he said. “So we will be progressing through time to the point that we do pass the initial days of the outbreak.”

Speaking again with the entertainment magazine, Kirkman talked up the opportunities that the new Los Angeles setting has afforded the franchise.

“The urban sprawl -- it covers a tremendous amount of land, and it’s got an extremely dense population, so there are a lot of things about that that lend itself well to good storytelling in the zombie apocalypse,” he said.

Los Angeles is now a city where, by nature, a vast amount of people come to the to reinvent themselves, Kirkman said to Entertainment Weekly.

“It’s almost a city of immigrants inside a country of immigrants. So there’s definitely some aspects of that we’ll also be playing with as well,” Kirkman said.

In regular “Walking Dead” news, actor Corey Hawkins (“Straight Outta Compton”) will be playing a character named Heath, a key member of the Alexandria community who comes right from the original comics. As reported in the Hollywood Reporter, Heath, who will become a Alexandria supply runner, first appeared in the comics in issue #69.

“Fear the Walking Dead” airs on AMC in August.