Walking Dead Creator Speaks Out About Being Fired!

Frank Darabont, show runner for AMC's the walking dead, season 1 and 2 at least. Is not holding back as he talks about the real reason for his termination from the show. This information is coming out as he peruses a law suit for breach of contract against the shows producers. For losses of 10's of millions of dollars that they allegedly owe him. It all seams to come down to budge as Darabont brings up emails between AMC executives touting the myriad of successes which, apparently, had no bearing on costs:

I remember Joel Stillerman, in a meeting in my office, when we were all discussing the issues of the upcoming season, we said to him, ‘Surely that the success of the show, which, by the way, you guys are bragging about because we keep getting e-mails saying, ‘Hey, we’re breaking viewership records in 120 countries around the world by hundreds of percent, in some countries by over 1,000%,’ at the same time we’re hearing how successful the show is for you, you’re telling us that this, this budget issue is not going to budge at all. And he said, ‘The success of the show has no bearing on this discussion,’ in a rather icy manner.

Another slap to the face of Darabont in the crew came when AMC announced that they would apparently be keeping the tax credit.

Not only cutting us from 3.4 [million] to 3 [million], that was bad enough, but then they dropped the bomb on us that, oh, by the way, they’re also keeping the tax credit. They’re going to pocket the tax credit. So, between the two you’ve got a full 25% cut across the board. Now, that tax credit, by the way, was something that, again, you go back to the treatment of the cast and crew. The cast and crew were earning, busting their butts, leaving it all on the field, to earn. The fact that we couldn’t then take that tax credit and put it on the screen or alleviate shooting conditions to any degree, I thought that was adding insult to injury. But again, our success had no bearing on that discussion according to him.

The full interview can be Read Here. In wich Darabont goes on to talk about meeting with VP of scripted programming, and the complete and otter lack of interest AMC has for what is one of if not there biggest show ever.

This all just comes down to another case of big media company's stepping on the artists and ruining the shows that we all love and care about. AMC and other channels like them only see profit instead of excepting these shows for that they truly are, art. This is sort of lack of caring about quality programming, and just corporate greed. Is why i have moved away from traditional media, in favor of more independent content.