How Shooting in Mexico Is Making Fear the Walking Dead a Better TV Show Todd VanDerWerff - Vox
go to original August 27, 2016

Fear the Walking Dead - Filming in Mexico (kmouts)

Before the director can shout, “Action,” to set in motion a complicated scene that’s about to unspool on camera, somebody else’s voice cuts in: “There’s a horse on C camera!”

And there it is, in the background of the shot, lazily swishing its tail, grazing on the tall grass.

We’re supposed to be in the middle of the zombie apocalypse, in a world riven by death and destruction, and the horse could not care less.

Can the horse be moved? asks the director. No, as it turns out. It’s on private property, and Fear the Walking Dead, at present, is filming in a giant vacant lot next to the private property, in Santa Anita, a tiny little town in the foothills of Baja, Mexico.

Various efforts are made to shoo the horse from outside the fence, and it eventually wanders away, in search of better grass elsewhere.

But the experience exemplifies Fear the Walking Dead’s learning curve in a country that has never before served as host to an American television show, at least to this degree.

Even though Mexico is, relatively speaking, right next door to the television industry’s home base of Los Angeles, producers looking to make an expansive series but still save a few bucks have always been more likely to head up to Vancouver, a city where the American dollar generally goes further, but also a city with lots of experienced behind-the-scenes personnel. (Indeed, that’s where the bulk of Fear the Walking Dead’s first season was shot.)

But that’s starting to change, whether the horse likes it or not.

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