Kurt Sutter Exits His Netflix Series ‘The Abandons’ As Production Nears End
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: This is a shocker — Kurt Sutter is out of the Netflix series The Abandons just three weeks before the sprawling Western starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson is slated to wrap production in Calgary.
Sutter was the executive producer/showrunner on the series, which he also created. The Abandons executive producer/director Otto Bathurst and co-exec producer Rob Askins will oversee the rest of filming — including reshoots, which will continue as scheduled with no new showrunner named. (Sutter and Bathurst are pictured in the above cast photo taken at the start of production in May.) The Abandons is about six episodes into its seven-episode shoot, I hear.
Reps for Netflix and Sutter declined comment. 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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