lawsuits and the walking dead Hit TV shows and zombies have become synonymous. Over the past decade, six writers, directors and producers have sued AMC over money owed for the show, and, this week, a seventh has joined the list. Dave Erickson, who helped create the show’s first spinoff, fear the walking deadis now suing the network, claiming he hasn’t seen any backend benefits from his work on the show.
Which sounds incredible, doesn’t it? Ericsson created fear the walking dead with Robert Kirkman, and it immediately became a huge hit. He ran the show for three years, during which it received the best ratings in its entire run. And yet, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Erickson’s most recent statement on the show claims it lost $185 million, so it lost money. But other people also were paid at least $49 million, according to the complaint.
“Dave Erickson makes a big breakthrough for AMC fear the walking deadExpansion the walking dead Solidifying Universe and AMC as zombie networks,” his attorneys, Aaron Liskin and Nick Soltman, the showrunner’s attorney, told the trade. He said that even though the show was “an extraordinary success, Mr. Erickson has not received a single dollar in profits from AMC and, absent this action, he never will.”
An attorney representing AMC disputes the claim. “This lawsuit, like [Robert] “There’s no merit to Kirkman’s years before,” AMC lawyer Orin Snyder told Variety. “We’re confident that this one will fail just like the last one. The contracts here were negotiated by Hollywood’s most experienced and sophisticated legal talent, and AMC has paid the amounts owed in full. This is just another ridiculous money grab.”
But those “money grabs” have worked in the past. Don’t forget that Frank Darabont filed a similar lawsuit in 2013, which resulted in a $200 million settlement nearly a decade later. A subsequent lawsuit filed by Kirkman and several others was initially dismissed but then re-filed based on Darabont’s agreement. That is still pending.
We’ll see how it all plays out, and for more details, feel free to visit the link above. But for now, let’s marvel at the fact that this is possibly the most interesting thing the walking dead Nowadays people wonder how much money they are owed.
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