Frank Darabont is one of my favorite movie-makers, and with films like The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption under his belt, he deserves respect. But lately he's been flaky on projects. According to Deadline.com, Frank Darabont has stepped away from producing the hit AMC series The Walking Dead.
This announcement has some people confused. And rightly so - since he conducted a successful and highly-anticipated Comic Con panel at the 2011 convention not even a week ago stating, “We’ve got people coming to the [writer's] table going, ‘Wow, we love this and we want to be a part of it, and that’s a really cool thing.’ "(tvline.com)
As the saying goes, hindsight is ironic 20/20. Darabont apparently has left the show because he "hails from the feature world and… never quite adjusted to the daily grind of producing a TV series"(deadline.com). This is the part where we put on our bullshit-reading glasses and assume that, just like previously with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Darabont has bailed because the show is going in a crappy direction. Which I'm not totally surprised about, seeing as how weak the last episode of season one was. I'm still shocked Darabont walked away from Indiana Jones though, that was a top quality film in every way and definitely would have never hurt his career.
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