Why darabont got fired

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The report contains many more examples of abusive emails from Darabont, who AMC's lawyer says was fired because "his volatile and disturbing interactions with staff and talent were impacting production. Season 1 performed strongly for AMC, setting a viewership record for basic cable, and yet the show's budget was cut by 25 percent for Season 2. In addition, AMC demanded to review all the scripts up front before shooting began for the season.

Tensions between Darabont and AMC grew during production of Season 2 until he was fired and Glen Mazzara who also is no longer with the show took over. See the first Walking Dead photo from Season 8. In his deposition, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter , Darabont talks about the early days of the show, saying that despite the massive ratings success of Walking Dead , AMC created budget problems for the series.

Read the court documents here. I had a tremendous lack of respect for them. Darabont says this led to a conversation with Susie Fitzgerald, vp scripted programming. He asked her whether she agreed with this approach. You have to do the crisis management. The reality is that he has been paid millions of dollars under the terms of his contract, which we honored, and we will continue to vigorously defend against this lawsuit.