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 The Walking Dead’s creator Robert Kirkman and several
of the show’s producers including Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara and David Alpert
have filed suit against AMC over the blockbuster zombie series. Co-creator and
former showrunner Frank Darabont was already suing AMC for $280 million for his
termination and money never paid to him. With so many people who are now working
on the show and no longer working on the show suing AMC damages could reach as
high as $1 billion. The new complaints are over breach of contract, tortious
interference and unfair or fraudulent business acts under California business
code. Their claim is: “Failure to honor its AMC’s contractual obligations to the
creative people… the defendant AMC Entities exploited their vertically
integrated corporate structure to combine both the production and the exhibition
of TWD, which allowed AMC to keep the lion’s share of the series’ enormous
profits for itself and not share it with the Plaintiffs, as required by their
contracts.” Plainly stated it suggests that AMC worked the system by selling the
rights at a low number so they could keep more of the profits. It’s the same
thing that Chris Carter sued FOX over the X-Files profits about and he won his
case. AMC is denying they did anything wrong. |
