Wissenswertes

Based on the 2010 book of the same name by Justin Cronin. The second book is called 'The Twelve' and the third is 'The City of Mirrors.'

The title of each episode is a line said by one of the characters.

It was announced in May 2019 that the show was cancelled after one season due to low ratings. While the show debuted back in January with a respectable audience of 5.2 million viewers, that figure fell practically every week with episode 10, the season finale, racking up just over 3 million viewers. Several other low-rated shows were cancelled too. Fox signed a five-year deal to broadcast NFL's Thursday Night Football starting in Fall 2019, which would take up two to three hours of broadcast time that night, so the widespread cancellations were to make room for football as well as other new shows the network planned to premier on other nights.

In July 2007 Fox 2000 paid $1.75 million for the film rights to The Passage by Justin Cronin.[10] In September 2009 John Logan was announced to be writing a screenplay with Ridley Scott attached to direct. In April 2011 Matt Reeves was announced as director. In June 2011 Jason Keller was hired to rewrite Logan's screenplay. The producers decided that the project would work better as a television series and in November 2016 Fox gave a pilot production commitment. In January 2017 Fox ordered the pilot. In August 2017 Fox Entertainment president David Madden told Deadline that there would be potential re-shoots to the pilot. In February 2018 it was revealed that there would be re-shoots of the pilot, to take place in March in Atlanta. In May 2018 Fox ordered the pilot to series.

This is Matt Reeves' first vampire project since Let Me In (2010).