ABC’s ‘Castle’ season 7 spoilers: Andrew W. Marlowe exits as showrunner
“Castle” already had an enormous twist in their season 6 finale, as Rick was kidnapped right before the start of his wedding by an unknown party. Who knew that there was going to be just as big of a twist in the offseason?
In news that was just confirmed today by TV Guide, show creator Andrew W. Marlowe is going to be stepping down as showrunner after being at the front of the Nathan Fillion – Stana Katic series since the very beginning. It’s a shocking move given that there was no indication this was going to happen, and while we’re sure that there are going to be some conspiracy theorists out there who feel like this is a response to a very polarizing finale, we sincerely doubt that is the case given that Marlowe is the reason that this show exists in the first place.
Speaking to the publication, Marlowe explained that he is handing the showrunning duties moving forward to David Amann:
“Over the past four seasons, David has proven himself to be a tremendous leader and a great steward of our show’s unique voice … I’m excited to continue our creative collaboration as he assumes his new responsibilities.”
Marlowe will still have a daily presence with the series, but will also continue to develop some new projects for ABC Studios thanks to the deal that he has there.
As for whether or not this will impact the tone of the show at all, we doubt it. This is a little different than the “Community” – Dan Harmon situation in that Marlowe and his wife Terri Edda still seem to be very involved with the show, and the new showrunner has already been around for many years and understands the process.
Still, it is a big change, and we will have to see what comes of it.
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Rick Montross
June 17, 2014 @ 2:12 pm
At the risk of being flamed, here is my idea made more plausible by Marlowe “leaving”. I’ve been trying to figure out how to “erase” that last episode — too many character inconsistencies and a stupid “carryover” accident.
Answer: DREAM SEQUENCE — Opening scene Season 7 — Beckett says “Castle it’s our wedding day but I just had the strangest dream — everything went wrong!” Romantic goo-goo follows.
Next scene: The Wedding
Result: Episode S6 Ep23 does not exist and all will be well in Caskettland.
A Friendly Person
June 22, 2014 @ 10:25 pm
Its Dallas – Castle Style!
Harvey
June 17, 2014 @ 7:22 am
Season 6 finale cliffhanger was awesome, though ruining Beckett character thing, the whole Season 6 being boring than other seasons, ending episodes of Season 5, which were damn awful, make it certain he needed to change. Amann would also, hopefully, give rise to Nathan and Richard character which has gone terribly down.
Steve
June 17, 2014 @ 10:34 am
This entry appears to have been written by a young child.
Harvey
June 17, 2014 @ 10:46 am
Okay, I am guessing you love children’s talk.
What exactly was it you didn’t like?
Aurora
June 17, 2014 @ 12:33 am
So are we saying it is just a coincidence that Marlowe is stepping down after that awful season finale. There is that show that I like watching where they always make the point that there are no coincidences……Oh yeah, it’s Castle.
Jim77
June 19, 2014 @ 5:51 pm
That’s just silly. Of course it’s a coincidence. It’s Marlowe’s show and his characters and he – with Bowman, Amann and others, decide what will happen, when and why – not us. The season finale wasn’t “awful”, just not quite what the fandom expected. It was designed to open up new stuff for the new season, rather than close down season six completely (which is what the wedding would have done if there had been no renewal).
He’s obviously now stepping back – not down – to give himself more time to develop his Philip Marlowe series while he leaves Castle in very capable hands, with writers who now know what they are doing and peerless performers.