Fear the Walking Dead fans have been speculating, since Morgan was announced to be crossing over, about whether season 4 will see a massive time jump, or whether it will remain a prequel.

But what if the answer is both?

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, new showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss (taking over from Dave Erickson) appeared to reveal that the new season will take place across more than one time period.

Which means we could be seeing some scenes happening directly after the season 3 cliffhanger (in Mexico) and other scenes much further along in the timeline (in Texas).

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"The only character whose fate we know is Madison's," Goldberg said. "So, everything else is left unanswered.

"Let's just say, without giving too much away, we're going to be playing with expectations, we're going to be telling stories that experiment with time."

Chambliss added: "We're playing around with narrative structure and, hopefully, have done it in such a way that when the audience thinks they've figured out where we're going, we have a way to pull the rug out from under them.

"We know Madison washed up on the shores of the river after the dam broke, but everyone else, we're not quite sure and we don't want to give away too much of that because discovering what that journey was is a big part of season 4 and how that journey shapes the characters."

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So how does Morgan (Lennie James) fit into this?

Robert Kirkman seemed to suggest not long ago that his appearance on the spin-off (maybe) takes place after season 8 ends – but the potentially different time frames only seem to introduce more questions.

"Morgan's journey from The Walking Dead to Fear is not going to be an easy one and, without giving too much away, it's going to be a journey where he's going to come into contact with the characters in Fear, and he is going to change them," Chambliss teased.

"Those same characters are, ultimately, going to change Morgan in a way that he's not expecting."

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