Wednesday • June 19, 2013
Frank Darabont Fires Entire Writing Staff from THE WALKING DEAD
Executive Producer for AMC's highly successful breakout series The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont, has let go of all the writing staff from season one.
While hiring and letting go of some writers in-between seasons is normal, letting go of every staffer is a tad bit unusual, especially considering the success of the show and it's record breaking ratings. Darabont wrote episodes one and two himself and creator of the comic series, Robert Kirkman, wrote episode four. Everyone else is now ousted.
Word is that Darabont wants to employ a freelance method of writing for the second season, which may pose a problem considering it's going to be a much longer season consisting of more than double this season's episodes, clocking in at 13. An example of another show that uses the freelance style of writing is Torchwood. No final decision has been made on how season two will be written at this time, but as of right now The Walking Dead has no writing staff other than Darabont himself and Kirkman.
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InstigatorGIRL
Um... what? Odd.
Samaritan
W......T.......Heck! The series is doing just fine...
Alex
gtrman
Probably not enough room in one place for all the writers and his ego. What the [frick] reason could he possibly have?
Keven | Music Editor
I hope this isn't a sign of the season finale's quality.....lol...
Alex
Those writers did a damn good job making sure that his show was successful, and he fires them.
Darabont,
you suck.
ckal
Oh [crap].
Honestly, I thought episodes 1 and 2 were the two best this season. 1 especially. I thought episode 4 was weak with the whole filler plot taking up most of the episode (I was close to actually hating the whole Vatos thing), and was surprised to find out that Kirkman himself had written it.
I wonder why Darabont fired them all. Maybe it is because they started deviating from the comic books so much recently. I don't have a problem with the show deviating a bit, and smartly, but I'm not a fan of this cure talk and CDC (even though I am happy they finally left the camp). Maybe he just wasn't happy with the writing/dialogue.
Episodes 3, 4, and 5 to an extent started to get a little boring IMO. Not much worthwhile was happening, the acting didn't seem as good, and neither did the writing/dialogue/plot, as the first two. Sheer emotion and terror and alone-ness without hope is what I loved about the series' early episodes. And while I thought it was still good, I don't think it is on par with the begging of the season.
Still looking forward to the finale, though. Maybe Darabont will make this show his baby and write and direct more episodes in Season 2.
Keven | Music Editor
hmmm. Episode 3 was probably my favorite of the season so far, with episode 1 a close second.
Upupandaway
Darabont does quality stuff (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, worked on the Saving Private Ryan script). I'm sure the guy has is reason of which I cannot postulate (Absinthe and several prostitutes involved?). The freelance method may give more centralized quality/creative control. Who knows?
SLCpunk801
I hope this isn't a sign of the season finale's quality.....lol... o_O
Ya no sh**!!
Have you heard of something like this before?
Helena
Uh... Really? So unnecessary.