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It was an almost Walking Dead full house tonight on stage at the TV Academy’s Leonard E. Goldenson Theatre. Almost. Noticeably absent Tuesday was Glen Mazzara. The departing executive producer and showrunner, who AMC announced was exiting from the hit show in December, was supposed to be there with creator/executive producer Robert Kirkman, EP Gale Anne Hurd and the Dead‘s main cast. His name was included along with everyone else’s when the invite went out last month. However, Mazzara’s name and presence suddenly disappeared from the event without explanation late last week. No details were given
on stage about his absence; the only questions asked of the panel came pre-selected from social media. No questions were taken tonight live from the audience. However, a source close to the event told Deadline that Mazzara was “unavailable.” He was so unavailable that he was on Twitter throughout the day Tuesday talking about The Walking Dead. In mid-January, Walking Dead supervising producer Scott Gimple was named as Mazzara’s replacement.
Related: NATPE: Glen Mazzara Says “Ask AMC” Why He Was Dropped From ‘Walking Dead’
The Walking Dead returns for part two of its record-breaking third season on February 10. The show was renewed for a fourth season late last year.
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Gale Anne Hurd is one tacky producer. This isn’t movies were you dump writers like yesterdays garbage and treat them like crap. Glen is a smart and sensitive man. He gave them a great show with great ratings and they showed him the door. Gale Ann Hurd dumped Frank and now Glen. Writers be warned.
AMC has no class either.
So true. And what on earth does Gale Ann Hurd the ‘Terminator’ lady know about storytelling. She’s making herself look foolish. The Walking Dead is only successful because it draws in low brow viewers to AMC, not because of it’s “story telling” and “character development”.
AMC made the decisions to drop Darabont and then Mazzarra – not Gale Anne Hurd.
I’m so worried about this show. Kirkman’s not a writer. What Gale does no one knows. Hope for the best but expect the worst. Damn. I used to love Walking Dead. Sucks.
Robert Kirkman’s not a writer? Shhhh – don’t tell Image Comics that, otherwise they’ll be scratching their heads wondering how Walking Dead, Invincible, Super Dinosaur, etc, etc immaculately went and wrote and sold thousands of copies all by themselves.
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Walking Dead = show for losers.
cake’s comment = loser reading about a show he doesn’t like. huh?
There was something beautiful and grounded about season two that is now gone. I didn’t find season two slow at all, but riviting, more like modern Greek tragedy. They seem to have traded that classical structuring, (relative) nuance, and logic for a cartoony kind of mayhem. Now characters do what the plot requires of them in ridiculous contrived ways. I don’t believe most of these characters anymore, despite some fine acting, and I hate that. It’s so defeating to see characters built up with such care devolving into characature and delivery systems for jump-the-shark plotting. They need to balance out Kirkman’s adolescent storytelling with something more subtle and soulful or this will continue to go south fast. I’m not half as excited for Sunday as I was a year ago.
Have you forgotten the show is about a group of survivors fighting for their lives in a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!?!?!?!
What do you expect? It’s part drama but zombie action. The fans love it. AMC should just leave it alone. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
I think the whiny “emo” types in Walking Dead’s audience love season two so much because the characters spent most of the time acting like whiny emo types. Their idea of “character development.’
There have been a pattern of dismissing great writers. Frank Darabont to start an amazing writer in my opinon. Glen Mazzara did a wonderful job of changing the direction of the show. I just hope this ia pattern that The Walking Dead do not continue to dismiss great talent.
The show has been complete crap since the beginning. Season 1, The Vatos? Then that whole Dr. Jenner in the CDC building at the end of season 1. Or season 2′s finale with Hershel’s unlimited shotgun rounds? Even the whole direction Andrea’s character has taken. From badass in season 1 to having daddy issues at the end of season 3. But then again all the females from the comic to the tv screen have been weaker versions of themselves. Rick’s breakdown was just one half of an episode? Come on! Once again they could have explored more of the prison’s world by extended the episodes to cover more character’s living there before Rick’s group.Hell they even wasted off a good character like Dale’s way too early. Wonder if they’ll ever decide to cut off one of Rick’s hands. The Walking Dead comic is a great story on the breakdown of society with NO RULES. The television version has so much great material to pull stories from an elaborate from but sadly turns them into mediocre mellow drama. Give Kirkman the control he deserves as the creator to tell this story of the human psyche.
Much of what works in Kirkman’s comic book would be pretty silly and melodramatic onscreen. Should Rick travel around with a telephone and talk to his dead wife Laurie over several episodes? Should Morgan lose his dignity as a character (that Darabont embued him with) and just be feeding humans to his zombie kid? Should Carl survive having half his head shot off– HALF HIS HEAD– with no ER available– and not die of the trauma or infection? Should a serial killer roam the prison and cut off heads? How about including the ninja named Jesus and his amazing kung fu? Should Rick– the leading man of the series– become bone stupid strategically and totally unsympathetic because that’s how Kirkman scripted him in the comic? Should the Governor twirl his mustache and be Dr. Evil from the first time we meet him? Have folks even READ Kirkman’s comic book dialogue? That’s some poignant, nuanced stuff there. Lex FLippin’ Luthor is more pithy than this new villain of Kirkman’s “Negan.”
The 100,000 people that read the comic don’t seem to get that a literal translation would be pretty ridiculous to the 10 million TV viewers that don’t read the comic and want a compelling, suspenseful, post-apocalyptic adult drama with some reality to it. The Shane storyline alone, which was barely 6 issues in the comic, was infintely more compelling and dimensional on the show.
Kirkman,in my opinion, really needed Darabont and Mazzara to hone and refine it and make it work for a mass audience.
Anyway, it’s definitely Kirkman’s show now. Sink or swim. He has the total control he craved. I just hope Andrew Lincoln, the last guy with any pull on the show besides Kirkman, won’t let the show go into the shitter. The show can survive easily without Kirkman– not so much without Lincoln.
You got it right.
All these people blaming Gale and AMC for Mazzara getting the boot, when everybody I’ve talked to insists it was KIRKMAN’s wish.
I wouldn’t go up on stage with this group either.
You owe a good part of the other 99,999 readers of the Walking Dead comics an apology for painting us as being as literal as irrational fanboy Adam above. I hate to break it to you, but quite a number of us are also movie and TV fans (and even live theater fans) who understand the differences between the mediums. I think the show rocks — it has its flaws (they should have spent just a little bit more time making Lori likable, giving her some sort of a moral win before she died to make Lori’s death on the show as devastating as it was in the comics (factoring out that in the comics, infant daughter Judith died in the same incident that killed Lori).
Moreover, as much as I like the comics’ Maggie, I think that the show’s stronger, *far* more pro-active Maggie is ten times the character that the comics’ Maggie is.
So could we just keep the sweeping generalizations to a minimum, okay?
This is a story of the breakdown of society and ultimately the human psyche. Everything you listed should be explored. The telephone Rick uses to talk to Lori is a necessity. It sheds light into how Rick is slowly losing his mind. Morgan was breaking down when he had his wife in his scope so why wouldn’t he hold onto his zombie son? These people are in dying world and they’re trying to hold onto what little they have left of the old world. Carl was shot in the eye and pretty sure they had full medical supplies. Have you seen what the television series tries to pull off as “reality” in the situations portrayed so far? Why wouldn’t a prison have a serial killer? Why can’t a survivor have Kung Fu training? Would make sense in surviving a world where you are anticipating a “walkers” movements. They don’t have to use Kirkman’s dialogue. These “great” writers have the basic structure to create characters with depth. The TV series has wasted characters and missed opportunities by rushing the storyline. The Governor has lost his evil appeal with this soap opera version. Like said before even the female characters in the TV version are weaker. AMC has plenty of material to build off of not diminish.
Every time I read peoples comments about things I keep hoping more and more that some day a dictatorial world government will take over and enlist people like me into death squads.
Yeah, I liked Glenn too.. but everyone needs to remember that ROBERT KIRKMAN created this series that we all love so much. It’s his comic, and his show. He’s still the leading voice on the show.. and if Mazzara wanted to take it in a different direction than Kirman did, then I agree with letting Mazzara go.
Think about it, if you created a top rated, award winning show, and the top producer started to have different ideas than you did, would you still want him in charge?
You all need to lighten up. Robert Kirman is still leading the reigns.. and it’s still the exact same panel of writers that it always has been. The show will continue to be great, and continue to be in the same spirit of the comics.. BECAUSE AMC respects the show’s original creator.
It was Glen’s job to PRODUCE the creator’s ideas. Apparently he didn’t want to to that anymore.
I think AMC did the right thing in respecting Robert Kirman’s wishes, and because of that, the show will continue to stay great- just as the comics.
THE PRODUCER IS NOT THE CREATOR OR THE BRAINS BEHIND THE SHOW. His job is TO PRODUCE THE CREATOR’S WISHES.
-Remember that. Robert Kirkman, the BRAINS behind Walking Dead, is still in charge. We should be very grateful for that.
I couldnt agree more buddy and if carl doesnt get shot in the eye i might stop watching