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Frank Darabont’s Rage Boils Over: The Walking Dead Emails 2017-07-22 10:48:19 Post No. 85306203
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Frank Darabont’s Rage Boils Over: The Walking Dead Emails
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2017-07-22 10:48:19
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http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/frank-darabont-walking-dead-emails-rage-boils-over-1202494598/
Holy shit, these emails are pure gold!
>I just kept Denise on the phone for 20 minutes making her listen to me scream. I hope she conveys to you what the tenor of it, because you need to grasp my fury. I have never been a screamer, but I am now. The work being done on this episode has turned me into one. Congratulations, you all accomplished what I thought was impossible. You’ve turned me into a raging asshole. Thanks a lot, you fuckers.
>Everybody, especially our directors, better wake the fuck up and pay attention. Or I will start killing people and throwing bodies out the door.
>Fuck you all for giving me chest pains because of the staggering fucking incompetence, blindness to the important beats, and the beyond-arrogant lack of regard for what is written being exhibited on set every day. I deserve better than a heart attack because people are too stupid to read a script and understand the words.
>Please let’s stop invoking the “writers room.” There IS no writers room, which you know as well as I do. I am the writers room. The lazy fucking assholes who were supposedly going to be my showrunners threw that responsibility on me after wasting five months of my time.
>If it were up to me, I’d have not only fired Chic Egles and Jack LoGuidice when they handed me the worst episode 3 script imaginable, I’d have hunted them down and fucking killed them with a brick, then gone and burned down their homes. I haven’t even spoken to those worthless talentless hack sons-of-bitches since their 3rd draft was phoned in after five months of all their big talk and promises that they’d dig deep and have my back covered.
>YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE MOTHERFUCKING SCRIPT! I EVEN CHOOSE MY GODDAMN COMMAS FOR A REASON! WHY AM I WORKING SO FUCKING HARD IF YOU’RE SHOOTING EVERYTHING SOME OTHER WAY THAT DOESN’T WORK?
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Frank Darabont acts like a raging madman in those emails but the rage isn't meaningless, he very clearly cared about the show and desperately wanted it to be as good as possible. It's a real shame AMC fired him.
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>>85306203
Post the bit about the female director reminding him of a stroke victim. It's top bants.
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darabont is /ourguy/
why the fuck hasn't he worked on anything lately? did this show ruin his career that much?
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>>85306203
Frank is 100% right and all these 5-6 years old e-mails perfectly predicted the reasons behind TWD's downfall. We're talking about a show where...
>the #1 Make-Up Artists has directed 20 (+13) episodes
>the current Show Runner is an inexperienced nobody
>there are almost more Exec Producers than actors
Are you notoriously incompetent? No biggie as long as you're Kirkman's buddy! He might be a great comic book writer, but his policies made TWD FUBAR.
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I can't tell a concrete reason but watch his Hollywood's Best Film Directors episode from 2011. It might help you understand why he rarely worked on anything since the mid-late 90s.
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FTWD is good tho
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>He might be a great comic book writer
He might be, but he's not.
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Just watch YMS videos on the Walking Dead, Darabont really did care and wanted to properly adapt the comics.
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