The Walking Dead Comic Book Writer Robert Kirkman And Series Producers Are Suing AMC

It looks like AMC has a new creative lawsuit in their hands with The Walking Dead team suing the company because of an alleged profits scam.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Walking Dead franchise creator Robert Kirkman along with television producers David Alpert, Gale Anne Hurd, Charles Eglee and Glen Mazzara are suing the AMC after the network failed to honor its contract to properly pay the creative team.

The complaint which was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday opens:

"This case arises from a major entertainment conglomerate's failure to honor its contractual obligations to the creative people — the 'talent,' in industry jargon — behind the wildly successful, and hugely profitable, long-running television series The Walking Dead. The defendant AMC Entities exploited their vertically integrated corporate structure to combine both the production and the exhibition of TWD, which allowed AMC to keep the lion's share of the series' enormous profits for itself and not share it with the Plaintiffs, as required by their contracts."

Questioning the amount the AMC Network "paid" to AMC's studio arm for the right to air The Walking Dead, Kirkman and the rest of the plaintiffs are suing the network for breach of contract, fraudulent business acts and tortuous interference.

This isn't the first time that AMC has gotten into legal trouble – back in 2013 the company was also sued by The Walking Dead's former showrunner Frank Darabont who claimed that the company had been trying to shortchange him with shady licensing fee practices.

AMC hasn't filed a response to the lawsuit just yet, but with The Walking Dead being one of AMC's biggest series, we expect the company to tread carefully.

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