Fans of "The Walking Dead" have wondered whether the companion series will ever crossover with its parent show. During a recent chat with Deadline following the season 1 finale of "Fear The Walking Dead," Hurd said that a potential crossover between the two shows is dependent to the rules of the franchise's universe.
"Our group of survivors in 'The Walking Dead' haven't even made it as far as Washington D.C. yet, in six seasons, and they are not that far away. So for the 'Fear' characters to make it across the country? For what? I mean why would you go there?" Hurd said.
She continued, "How would we motivate our characters to head to D.C. ... to head to the Southeast. I just don't think that that's something that would be a natural outgrowth of who our characters are and where they are when the show begins."
Unlike most networks and producers who would quickly jump at the opportunity to use a crossover to increase ratings, Hurd suggested that AMC and her fellow producers are more wary in making a crossover between the two shows.
"[A crossover] is truly jumping the shark because it's not an outgrowth of who your characters are and what it is that each wants and needs," Hurd explained. "You're trying to contort them so that they'll fit into a plot line that simply isn't logical. I think the thing is to care for the characters."
"That's what has enabled 'The Walking Dead' to go into its sixth season incredibly strong, because you care about individual characters be it Rick [Andrew Lincoln], Michonne [Danai Gurira] or Daryl Dixon [Norman Reedus] or Morgan [Lennie James]," she added. "You care about the new characters that are introduced. You know what the rules are and you also know that whatever you expect will happen likely won't, or if it does it'll happen with a unique twist. So I think the same will apply to 'Fear.'"
While it's still uncertain whether a crossover would happen in the future, Erickson admitted to The Hollywood Reporter in May that there's something interesting in seeing both shows collide, suggesting that there's still chance for the two shows to interconnect.
"We are living under the same mythological umbrella," he said. "We are telling, ultimately, two parts of the larger story in this world that Robert has created. From a storytelling standpoint, I like the idea of conflating stories; I like the idea of things coming together."