Frank Darabont fires The Walking Dead’s entire writing staff

This Sunday walk Dead will finish up its first time of year on AMC . But showrunner Frank Darabont is already at work getting ready for the 13 - sequence second season — by firing his entire writing staff . Could this mean fuss for walk Dead ?

Deadlineis reporting a rumor that conductor , author and Walking drained producer Frank Darabont has let the entire composition staff go . And alternatively of hire a raw staff for the second season , Darabont is flirt with the musical theme of ascribe freelancers to each script . While assigning freelance to television receiver scripts is n’t anything new , force out the whole writing stave is pretty unusual , and we ’re still weigh out the pros and cons of this executive determination .

On one bridge player , Darabont penned the serial pilot and the 2nd sequence solo , while carbon monoxide gas - writing and rewriting the remaining four episode of walk Dead ’s first time of year . Two of the four episodes that Darabont did n’t write were create by “ non - staffers ” Glen Mazzara and original risible creator Robert Kirkman . So in realness , Darabont is already carry the bulk of the writing work on his shoulder , so there may not be any need to blow the second time of year budget on an in - house committal to writing staff .

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That being said , the second time of year has a total of 13 episodes . That replicate the amount of time the production crowd will have to spend under the boiling Atlanta sun filming the young installment . Plus , whatever writer ends up tackling the new scripts , they ’re going to be under a very tight schedule . And if Darabont wants to stay as to a great extent involved as he has been throughout season one ( and it go like he does ) it ’s going to take double the attempt to save , re - write , produce , shoot , and delete the new time of year . The burn mark out constituent seems almost inevitable , even with the original laughable book outline .

And while we ’re on the topic of the original , the TV serial has already shoot a massive deviation from the books . We ’re just five episodes in and already show is attempting to explicate the chemical root of the zombie - shit virus , whereas the comedian focused solely on endurance . The more totally original textile Walking Dead the TV show aims to produce , the more eye we ’d rather have on each unexampled playscript . The writers ’ room is where a plenty of these young story idea would get hash out — if one exists . With no staff writers , there ’s no writers ’ room .

All of this has yet to be confirmed and is simply a rumor — but we ’re hoping that Darabont go ahead and lease a few actual staff writers , as opposed to freelancers , for season 2 , for the betterment of Walking Dead .

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