Assuming the world doesn't witness an evolution in the current pandemic that turns lawyers into ravenous zombies, Frank Darabont and Creative Artists Agency may finally get their shot at going to trial and winning hundreds of millions of dollars from AMC in 2021. A lawsuit overprofits has been lingering ominously for an astonishing seven years.
No surprise then that in motion papers filed yesterday, Darabont's side wants to keep the jury from hearing the vile things the Academy Award nominated director told colleagues in profane emails. Stuff like, "Everybody, especially our directors, better wake the f*** up and pay attention. Or I will start killing people and throwing bodies out the door.”
Darabont was also told during the depo that his relationship with CAA had become the "number one example" in a WGA manifesto about talent agencies, and when his lawyer attempted to object to questioning, AMC's lawyer said it "goes directly to the motive of CAA in screwing their client and lining their own pockets,” and “[i]f anything, CAA has an incentive to sell their client down the river.