An article on The Hollywood Reporter reports that Robert Kirkman may have been the reason as to why Glen Mazzara won’t be the showrunner after season 3. Check it out below, with link below as well.
AMC and Walking Dead comic book writer and producer Robert Kirkman were blamed for Mazzara’s ouster and called out by name by showrunners Shawn Ryan (Last Resort) and Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy), neither of whom is involved with Walking Dead but both of whom worked with Mazzara on Ryan’s FX series The Shield. Ryan tweeted, “It’s a real question now why good showrunners should sell to AMC,” and Sutter followed with a tweet declaring that AMC had sent him “a gift basket filled with – broken promises and the marinated tongue used to lick Kirkman’s ass.”
In a follow-up video posted on his website, Sutter denounced AMC for departing from a cable culture that generally allows showrunners more creative freedom than do the broadcast networks. Kirkman, he added, “is an amazing visual artist and a graphic artist [but] knows very little about TV, and the reins keep going back to him in this process, and he doesn’t know how to run a show.”
Several insiders confirm that Kirkman, whose detailed graphic novels form the basis of the series, is “very proprietary,” as one puts it. One adds, “I believe Robert wants to maintain a certain amount of his control, and AMC needs Robert for the fan base.” But despite the vitriol, some sources involved with Walking Dead say Kirkman was one of several producers on the show who had issues with Mazzara and his vision.
One source says Mazzara’s shortcomings in running the series during the most recent third season became “abundantly clear – especially for the second half of the season.” This source says production was shut down “several times” because of a lack of material.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
At first I thought it was AMC and their cheap ways as to why Glen Mazzara left, but after reading this, well it sounds like Robert Kirkman was the reason as why Mazzara left or was fired.
Why do you think Mazzara left the show? Or do you think he was fired?
