“The Walking Dead” co-creator Frank Darabont is reportedly seeking a huge amount of money for damages in his lawsuit against AMC over the profit of the TV series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the certificate of trial was filed Monday, September 26. The former showrunner and his legal team are seeking a whopping damages verdict in excess of $280 million.
This comes after his deposition in January, in which he alleged there were crisis-level problems on the show. A judge allowed the claim after his initial statement.
Darabont was fired by the network halfway through the show’s second season. He alleges AMC improperly reduced his profit share by not counting his efforts on the show’s second season as being involved all year. AMC has insisted that it honored his contract in a statement.
The co-creator claims that he worked on all episodes of the sophomore season. He was contractually entitled to as much as 10% of the show’s profits after deductions.
Darabont claims that his contract was designed to ensure that the show would never be in the black for profit participants.
The network has responded to Darabont’s lawsuit and says that his claims are baseless and that they will continue to defend the case.
The network claims that Darabont was fired for not holding director’s tone meetings while the latter insists that he was laid off because the budget was cut from $3.3 million to $3 million per episode back in the second season.
Darabont also claims that the network snaffled a tax credit from Georgia for filming in the state but did not provide evidence to prove this claim.
Reports suggest that summary judgment motions should shed more light on the finer details of relations between AMC and Darabont.
Unfortunately, this will be a long ordeal for Darabont and the network as the judge assigned to the case already has her schedule packed for next year.
Gearing up for Season 7
Despite the legal drama within the show, the seventh season of “The Waling Dead” will premiere in less than a month and fans are stoked to see their favorite zombie-surviving characters.
The upcoming season will introduce a lot of notable comic characters such as Ezekiel and his pet tiger Shiva, as well as the locations The Kingdom and the Sanctuary.
Khary Payton also debuted as Ezekiel along with Shiva in the trailer released last month. TV Guide reports that the first half of Season 7 would see the group picking up the pieces under the thumb of depression.
Rick will also deal with a lot of things given that he’s been losing the trust of the people around him. Producers hint a major character development for Rick in the upcoming season.
Readers of the original source materials would know that Ezekiel and The Kingdom will be the gang’s refuge after they have suffered too much at the hands of Negan. This means that Payton’s character and his pet might appear later in the season.
AMC has already released the trailer for the newest season last month and things are about to get really interesting for a lot of characters.
A slew of photos has also been released online with some showing Rick and his group soaked in red, foreshadowing the deaths coming.
Showrunners say that the theme for the latest installment is beginning again as the gang will realize that the world they thought is not what it really is because it is bigger and even more dangerous.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan will have successfully brought the survivors under his control. Fans are waiting for the ultimate cliffhanger Season 6 finale brought — particularly on the identity of Rick’s crew who was killed by Negan.
The last minutes of the season finale shows the characters kneeling in front of Negan while he pick who will be his victim.