As the public discovered The walking dead in 2010 there was a bit of a behind-the-scenes sci-fi show. Although it has long been in the hands of others, TWD started as a filmmaker creation Frank Darabont ( Shawshank's Redemption, Green thousand), adapted from Robert kirkwoodcomic book series and inspired by his long-standing love for the genre that began with the seminal Night of the Living Dead.
Darabont served as showrunner, directed the pilot, and co-wrote four of the six episodes that made up the first season, and acclaim from critics and millions of viewers awaited the gripping and graphically violent drama, which would become the next feather. of the AMC cap alongside Mad Men.
But that December, after all that success from the get-go, came a report from Deadline that Darabont was planning to fire all of his writers' room. Hurd quickly sought to cut his head off this rumor, clarifying this writer and executive producer Charles Eglee was leaving, and if anyone else was leaving, it was to pursue other opportunities (as opposed to because Darabont was mad about power or something).
The production of the second season has started and Darabont has participated inthe series panel at Comic-Con in July 2011 - a few days before his dismissal. He sued AMC in 2013 for breach of contract and what he felt was his fair share of millions. TWD was winning, starting a multi-year legal battle that could outlive the show itself. Defense filings in 2017 said he was dismissed from his "erratic and unprofessional performance," which included drafting abusive emails and other "volatile and disturbing interactions with staff."
The Darabont team argued that these emails had nothing to do with its deserved share of the profit and AMC was only muddying the waters with the most salacious revelations. The case (which is more complicated than anything a room filled with sci-fi writers could come up with), encompassing this lawsuit and another financial issue pursued by Darabont in 2018, is now ready for trial in April 2021. .
