dinosaurfondue t1_iwizh2v wrote
AMC has made billions off the franchise and are notorious for being cheap. They treated Frank Darabont like shit so I'm not surprised that other TWD execs are suing as well
WeDriftEternal t1_iwj47r9 wrote
This is more or less than same lawsuit thats been happening for a half a decade. Its not really new.
They were already suing them, and then some additional info came out in discovery related to the Darabont suit, which help Kirkman and other's cases regarding AMC purposefully not respecting their MFNs, and then AMC and Darabont got finished and now they are using that to try to close out their suit.
Basically nothing really new here is happening, they're just doing regular legal things that need to be done to get AMC to the table again
diiejso t1_iwj1smp wrote
Darabont also treated his staff like shit so at this point I'm not sure who to believe in that whole ordeal.
I_AM_METALUNA t1_iwjp586 wrote
Both of them being assholes sounds very plausible
Goosojuice t1_iwj3k83 wrote
Word? What are the reports of the shit hes done?
diiejso t1_iwj4e1s wrote
> That wouldn’t be the only profane rant that month. In one email, Darabont asked why camera operators were being paid when “Ray Charles could operate better.” In yet another, he compared one of the show’s directors to someone whom he’d formerly worked with who had suffered massive, debilitating strokes. “It’s like we yanked some kid with no experience out of high school and put her in charge of directing a show,” wrote Darabont. > > And to AMC’s executives, he was no less polite. “Please let’s stop invoking ‘the writers room,'” he emailed AMC’s Ben Davis. “There IS no writers room, which you know as well as I do. I am the writers room. The fucking lazy assholes who were supposedly going to be my showrunners threw that responsibility on me after wasting five months of my time.”
https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/frank-darabont-walking-dead-emails-rage-boils-over-1202494598/
> I just kept Denise on the phone for 20 minutes making her listen to me scream. I hope she conveys to you what the tenor of it, because you need to grasp my fury.
It seems like one of those situations where both sides are shitty. There's more out there that was just first search results.
SeveranceZero t1_iwkhnui wrote
I mean… he may have not responded in the most mature way but his points are valid. I’d be pissed too if someone wasted 5 months of work not doing anything.
Also, have you seen the show at all? If he was referring to Scott Gimple and crew then even more so. Have you seen how much Gimple and Co. have ruined all aspects of TWD universe? His spin-off was complete garbage and nonsensical and his reboot of Fear destroyed what made the show enjoyable.
If Darabont had to put up with that shit, I don’t blame him one bit.
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kinzer13 t1_iwjcng6 wrote
Fuck AMC.
diiejso t1_iwjcv2n wrote
Did you mistake my criticism of Darabont as a defense of AMC? It's possible to think both were in the wrong. I stated as much, in fact.
Unseen_Karma t1_iwknhc8 wrote
Well frank was right though and just give frank some pass man the guy made " Shawshank redemption" & Green mile
IntoTheMusic t1_iwnmxsy wrote
>and are notorious for being cheap.
Yeah, they're greedy. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner also had problems with AMC where they wanted him to cut the cast in half, reduce the episode lengths (so they could fit more commercials in), and reduce the budget per episode. Weiner wouldn't do it. He was smart to have it stipulated in his contract that AMC couldn't continue the show without him.
annrule t1_iwp009e wrote
Omg is that why Andrea was written poorly? Laurie fucking ate in that role but my understanding is that the one actor quit because Frank quit....and that character was supposed to have storyline with her...so they basically had no idea what to do?
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