According to the Hollywood Reporter, William Crabtree is suing Kirkman, claiming that he convinced him to give up his stake in the show in order to make it easier to sell it to studios. The complaint states that Kirkman tricked Tony Moore out of his interest in the Walking Dead and that the case was amicably settled on undisclosed terms.
The creators of the show replaced an oral agreement with a scheme by Kirkman and his agents to get him to assign his rights to the company. At the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, he was presented with a certificate that claimed to describe his work as a work-for-hire. He said that he was in the final stages of licensing Invincible for television production and that having it represented by a single creator would increase its commercial viability. When he learned in 2020 that Amazon Studios was going to launch a show, he was told that he was not entitled to any monetary.
We only have one side of the story, because the representatives of Kirkman didn't respond to the publication. The series, which features J.K. Simmons and Steven Yuen as father-and-son superheroes, should be dropping more episodes.
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