Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has exited his new Netflix series just weeks before production was scheduled to wrap. Filming on the forthcoming Western series, appropriately titled The Abandons , began in May in Alberta, Canada, and is scheduled to conclude in mid-October. Variety reports that Sutter’s premature exit came due to creative differences with Netflix.
The publication reports that various changes to the series were made by Netflix, such as the number of episodes being reduced from 10 to eight, after the production went over budget. Netflix declined to comment. The Independent has contacted Sutter’s representatives.
Starring Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey as two mothers in a bloody feud, The Abandons was originally greenlit by Netflix in October 2022. An official logline for the show reads: “As a group of diverse, outlier families pursue their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon, a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society, unite their tribes to form a family and fight back.
In this bloody process, ‘justice’ is stretched beyond the boundaries of the law.” The show was created by Sutter, 64, who also served as executive producer and showrunner. Speaking to Netflix’s Tudum in May about the creation of the show, he said: “I am fascinated by the metamorphosis of good into evil.
“What must transpire to drive the morally sound to becom.