As audiences were finding The Walking Dead back in 2010, there was a little a s–t program going on behind the scenes. Though it’s long because remained in the hands of others, TWD began as a production of filmmaker Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile), adjusted from Robert Kirkwood‘s comics series and influenced by his long time love of the category that began with the influential Night of the Living Dead.
Darabont acted as showrunner, directed the pilot and co-wrote 4 of the 6 episodes that made up season one, and both crucial praise and countless audiences waited for the gripping, graphically violent drama, which would end up being the next plume in AMC’s cap along with Mad Men.
But that December, after all that success right out of eviction, came a Deadline report that Darabont planend to fire his entire authors space. Hurd rapidly looked for to slice the avoid of that report, clarifying that author and executive manufacturer Charles Eglee was leaving, and if anybody else was going it was to pursue other chances (instead of due to the fact that Darabont seethed with power or something).
Production on season 2 got underway and Darabont participated in the series’ panel at Comic-Con in July 2011—days prior to he was fired. He took legal action against AMC in 2013 for breach of agreement and what he felt was his rightful share of the millions TWD was making, beginning a years-long court fight that might outlast the program itself. Documents submitted by the defense in 2017 specified that he had actually been axed over his “erratic and unprofessional performance,” that included composing violent e-mails and other “volatile and disturbing interactions with staff.”
Darabont’s group has actually argued that those e-mails have absolutely nothing to do with his been worthy of revenue share and AMC was simply muddying the waters with the more salacious exposes. The case (which is more complicated than anything a roomful of sci-fi authors might develop), incorporating this match and another monetary concern Darabont took legal action against over in 2018, is now set to go to trial in April 2021.
