creator Kurt Sutter has made a few fiery exits over the past decade. He preemptively went medieval and on after one season, and a handful of years later, he left the spin off , which he co-created with Elgin James, after “ruffling a few mouse ears” of incoming Disney overlords. After the initial news of his firing, he described “an abrasive dick.
” Sutter then regrouped before announcing in late 2022 that he had created and written , an epic Western Netflix series for which he would be showrunner. The series purported to be matriarch heavy (as portrayed by Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey) in true Sutter fashion and included Ryan Hurst, Michael Ornstein, and Clayton Cardenas within an expansive cast. By all indications, Sutter has been cranking hard on the series and was frequently Instagramming from the set.
Yesterday, he even posted of “1851” “Oregon Territory” from the show, and suddenly, he’s now reportedly left . reports that filming is nearly finished, but budget cuts and a trimmed episode count caused friction on a storytelling note, and those classic “creative differences” were ultimately to blame: The departure is believed to stem from creative differences over the direction of the big-scale production as it is wrapping filming and headed into post. I hear an alarm went off at Netflix when the initial cut of the dense first episode, which sets the scene and introduces the large group of main characters, came in at 1 hour and 40 minutes.
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