Laurie Holden Assures That She Had an Eight-Year Deal with AMC [TV Series Spoilers]
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"I had an eight-year deal. I was supposed to be there until the end," she revealed at Walker Stalker Con. "I was supposed to end up with Rick. I was supposed to save Woodbury on a horse, and I was buying a house in Atlanta. I got the call at 10 o'clock the night before, while I was shooting, from the showrunner who is no longer a part of 'The Walking Dead,' saying that they couldn't write the episode and that he was killing my character. So we all got the script everybody on the set was sobbing. I felt like I got shot. None of it was supposed to happen the way it did."
Questionable writing decisions on Glen Mazzara's side.
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Let's just say that there was a lot of problems behind the scene on the show. I wish that AMC didn't screwed Frank and allowed him to carry out his vision.
Show would've been completely different if she had lived. I kinda like how things played out, so rest in peace, Andrea.
her character was annoying anyways
Im so glad they killed her character, from season 1 the character wasnt quite right and the actress was a bit meh
For the record, the article screwed up who the showrunner was. Frank Darabont was not the showrunner during Season 3. That was Glen Mazzara, the hack who replaced him and caused production on the second half of Season 3 to be shut down (twice, I believe) because of a lack of material. And so we got an episode where Rick and the Governor chat in a room for thirty minutes, an episode where Andrea is chased by the Governor for thirty minutes only to get caught at the very end, and now, apparently, an original idea for the finale that never came about.
What's interesting to me is that if Andrea "saved Woodbury" originally, then that implies that the back half of Season 3 was never going to be the end of the prison arc and that they probably had orders from the top to remain on the set for longer, since I highly doubt they were going to get back on the road and take the rest of Woodbury with them. Or maybe the idea was that Woodbury is now a free and peaceful community and Andrea leaves with the group. Though that'd still be kind of odd considering all the buildup during the season of her starting to take more of a leadership position in Woodbury. Plus, why the hell wouldn't the group stay? It's hard to tell because her account is pretty vague. Like, where does a horse come into play? Or does she mean metaphorically like, she comes in riding a white horse? >_>
You know what? I'm thinking way too hard about this. TL;DR version: AMC sucks at managing the show, and Glen Mazzara was a hack who couldn't run a show to save his life.
It wasn't the "brilliant" Frank Darabont that decided to kill off Andrea, it was Glen Mazarra that fucked up. Season 1 and 2 were my favourite 2 seasons and i loved the way Frank created his vision of the story and characters. Andrea definitely would have lived if he had stayed on seeing as he hired Laurie Holden having previously worked with her in The Mist. Same for Dale. Jeffrey DeMunn left after finding out Frank had been fired.
Oh, that was Glen Mazzara?
He is the genius behind what I consider to be a season that is pathetically off, but I can never put my finger on it.
Anyway, I will go and change the name of Darabond right away.
Oh, that makes quite a lot of sense! The article got the name wrong, though. I am going to change it right away.
Wasn't it the "brilliant" Frank Darabont who bored the shit out of everyone with the first half of season 2....be honest, everyone was moaning about nothing really happening until the shocking mid-season ending.
Yeah well im one of the few that liked season 2 and despite it being slow I didn't find it boring in the slightest. We got a lot of character development with Shane, generally each episode was pretty good in my opinion. They were certainly more interesting than what goes on these days, again in my opinion.
There's more to writing than trying to have action within a scene to keep people from being bored.
The issues is andrea was poorly done since her introduction, the only reason people liked her even slightly is that they were waiting for her comic character.
Since season 1 andrea has been nothing like her comic character. Firstly she was in her 40's rather than 20's meaning that the character's sometimes immaturity and indecisiveness that was understandable is now just bizzare. Andrea still acts like someone 20 years younger. Second shes angry and antsy towards rick rather than friendly when they meet, she's bitchy and mean rather than pleasant. Third is the way she deals with amy, rather than immediately shooting her she waits and threatens others that come near until she turns. Four the character becomes suicidal, something the comic character never does. From season 2 on wards she is whiny, reckless, unreliable and most of all smug. Everything she does is just irritating.
You might bitch about glen mazzara but andrea in the second half of season 2 was the character most similar to the comic character. In season 3 shes terrible again but the character has always had problems.
And i think it good that they don't (or rather didn't) always copy the comic book characters. It was adapted for tv after all. Anyway, i liked season 1 and 2 the best. Since then i've just not enjoyed the show as much. I think after they left the prison is when things really deteriorated in my opinion.
Don't get me wrong, i'll always be a fan and watch it and there are still good elements to the show but it has been lacking lately. All in my opinion
Well the comics were the same, I liked it the most till they left the prison. I do prefer the comics though
I think they should never of put the show on AMC ever as it is too soft for such a dark series, they should of tried HBO or at least a network where they're aloud to use the F word.
He was, because AMC cut the budget. He did the best he could and hated the lack of budget
There's not a problem with how Andrea was introduced imo. At least she want just referred to as "Oh that's Andrea" to the side of a panel like the comics. Her being angry at Rick isn't so bad, it's an introduction in the midst of a situation they're traumatised about, earlier in the outbreak. It wasn't an example of her entire character, or people would always hate Merle if we base them on first introductions. Plus Carol is pretty different too, and that's not bad
They took it to HBO before AMC
HBO i believed refuse to have the walking dead as they believed it would not be a success. Who's laughing now HBO?
However i do wish AMC didn't have this utterly pathetic rule of not allowing the F word, i mean seriously? Come on
I wasnt saying characters shouldn't be different, thats good. However i was saying andrea has always been annoying since season 1 and only the hope for her comic character kept people interested. I didnt even start to get into her most annoying moments.
The rule wasn't created by AMC themselves, but by the regulating corporation of the name that I don't know since I'm not American, either. From what I understand, AMC has to pay a fine every time that one of the actors says "fuck" on camera.
Should have stayed in my opinion. Much better character than Michonne (less personality than a walker) and Carol (laughable as a badass). Great character development from a suicidal wreck into a somewhat badass individual. It felt real and not forced, unlike Carol's development.
Ridiculous. Most of the worlds population say "fuck". It's part of our language these days
I love Carol
I figured something went wrong with the whole Andrea character. It was way to off from the comic book counter part and the character on the show was just getting more trashed until her end. I just grew to dislike her to the point of just hoping they kill her off. But I guess it should've never been this way.