Friday, September 12, 2014

Star of Syfy's Zombie Show 'Z Nation' Explains Why It's Not 'The Walking Dead'

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As Syfy's newest zombie drama Z Nation has learned, saying the Z-word is a bold move in an era that has seen the meteoric rise of AMC's The Walking Dead


But DJ Qualls, who stars in the drama premiering tonight, isn't worried about the comparisons


"We don't feel any sort of competition," he says. "We have similar subjects but we're completely different."



Qualls' character, nicknamed Citizen Z, is one example of exactly that


On the show, the actor plays a man who's trapped at a National Security Agency listening post in the Arctic, out of reach of the zombie apocalypse and set up with years-worth of supplies. He also has access to all of NSA's technology, meaning he acts as a guide to the wayward survivors who are attempting to get one man — who is thought to have the secret to a cure for the disease that causes zombie transformations — to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab in California Read more...


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