Author: Cameron Bonomolo / Source: The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman said “legal issues” are keeping Norman Reedus’ Daryl Dixon out of the ongoing comic book series. Kirkman made the revelation Thursday during Skybound’s San Diego Comic-Con panel.
“Norman Reedus likeness rights and stuff,” Kirkman said.
“I love the fact that there is something, if you read the comics, there would be an absence of Daryl and I feel like that adds to the mystery of the comic and makes it more appealing.”Unlike much of the television series’ sprawling cast of characters, Daryl isn’t a Kirkman creation: the character was created for The Walking Dead’s first season by then-showrunner Frank Darabont and writers Charles H. Eglee and Jack LoGuidice, who scripted Daryl’s first appearance in 1×03, ‘Tell It to the Frogs.’
The Walking Dead is owned and produced by AMC, who could be retaining Daryl exclusively as a show-only character. Other issues could have arisen through Daryl’s status as a co-creation of Darabont, who is embroiled in a nasty $300 million legal battle against AMC over profits owed from the hit series.
Kirkman, who serves as executive producer on the series, is engaged in a lawsuit of his own against the network alongside former showrunner and producer Glen Mazzara and series producers Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert, who cite similar issues with AMC, claiming the network cheated them of their fair share of profits generated by The Walking Dead.
Daryl Dixon was specially created for Norman Reedus, who boarded the zombie series as one-half of the hillbilly Dixon brothers alongside older brother Merle (Michael Rooker).
Noting Daryl’s popularity with fans and his position as face…
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