Kurt Sutter has abandoned The Abandons. The Sons of Anarchy creator is exiting the Western Netflix series three weeks before production is supposed to wrap in Calgary, according to Deadline. Sutter created the series and also served as showrunner and executive producer. Executive producer and director Otto Bathurst and co-executive producer Rob Askins will take over for the rest of filming, which will include reshoots and continue as scheduled. As of now, a new showrunner has not been named.
While a direct reason has not been given, there have reportedly been creative directions over the show’s direction as it wraps filming and goes into post-production. When the first episode initially closed in at one hour and 40 minutes, it was impossible to cut it down to an hour so it was decided to split the episode in two. That meant creating a cliffhanger in the middle of the episode, written
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