Recent news has now suggest that the 'Walking Dead' spin-off show will eventually match up with the events of the original show.

'Fear the Walking Dead' was revealed as a show that would depict the initial stages of the zombie outbreak and the events that took place while Rick Grimes was in a coma. This would mean that the show would jump forward a number of years to do so.

In an interview with EW, showrunner Robert Kirkman explains how he plans to stage this:

"I will say that it will definitely progress. 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. So we will be progressing through time to the point that we do pass the initial days of the outbreak. But how fast it is that we get there? That's just going to have to remain a mystery."

The jumps they make in the timeline sounds as if they could come at anytime. It isn't confirmed when the timelines of both shows will match up, or even if the spin-off would somehow surpass the original, but this does open up the door for characters to cross over possibly.

Kirkman continues:

"It would be happening for a while behind the scenes. In pockets of civilization, there would be news stories that didn't really make sense and didn't seem connected. And that's kind of where we pick things up. There are a lot of things on the news, there's a lot of chatter and paranoia and concern. And yet the vast majority of the population is ignoring these things and talking about their daily lives, and that's kind of where we pick things up. And things ramp up very quickly from there."

'Fear the Walking Dead' arrives to AMC later in August.