Hey , remember how boring season two of The Walking Dead was ? All those interminable scenes at Herschel ’s farm ? It turns out the genuine drama was materialise behind the scene , grant to a late unseal deposition by original TWD showrunner Frank Darabont , which practically drip with contempt for his former bosses at AMC .
The deposit was have as part of Darabont ’s lawsuit against AMC , which claimed that the channel withheld profits of the show ’s second season from him . As THR explains , Darabont was fired while the season was being film , so AMC gave him financial credit for 75 percent of the time of year , and the tantamount component part of the profits .
However , Darabont claimed — and Glen Mazzara , his assistant turned TWD showrunner # 2 corroborates — he form on all the season ’s sequence prior to motion-picture photography , and thus deserve his showrunner ’s remuneration for the season ’s totality . While it may vocalize like terrestrial greed on both side , remember , this is from Darabont ’s deposition , gain it his sworn testimonial — indicating the ex - showrunner presumptively feel the fact would back him up .
candidly , the big bombshell from the deposition might be that AMC somehow , for some rationality , decided to cut the show ’s budget from $ 3.4 million per episode to $ 3 mil . This is absolutely bonkers , because even by time of year two The walk Dead was a rating juggernaut , and must have been immensely profitable for the web . disregarding of what Darabont was owed for his work , the fact that AMC want to unretentive - change its most successful series — and one of the most popular serial publication on all of TV — is mind - boggling .
There ’s actually a great deal more fun ( i.e. , scathing ) details about the AMC execs to key out at the link . Meanwhile , it ’s deserving remembering that whatever the understanding , season two of The Walking Dead was indeed pretty bad — and the show has get somewhat expert ever since Scott Gimple took over at showrunner .
It could be that AMC is solely to blame , and/or maybe Darabont was extend too fragile during filming . Or maybe , as was rumored , Darabont was extremely difficult to work with , and Gimple just gets along well with the web and creator Robert Kirkman . Or maybe at some point the AMC executives realized how harebrained it was to needlessly hamstring the budget of their most popular , profitable show , and are no longer draw in such financial shenanigans . We do n’t know !
All we live for sure is that as per usual , the biggest danger on The Walking Dead are n’t the zombi spirit , but the aliveness — whether they ’re in front of the tv camera or behind it .
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