2023 Writers + Actors Strike Thread

[dragonflies]

 

[DRW50]

More game-playing from the studios that is going to keep stalling this out. I wonder if the people who think the powers that be want to stall this out to make it easier to just dump anything and everything are right.

https://deadline.com/2023/08/wga-strike-guild-regjects-latest-studio-offers-rips-ceos-1235525784/

[Soaplovers]

Both sides need to compromise because the longer the strike goes on...the longer the damage from the strike will take to be repaired.

[Vee]

The compromise is starting from the preexisting poverty of writers and performers in this industry already, including those not covered by the Guilds.

Edited August 23, 2023 by Vee

[DramatistDreamer]

I can tell you that revising a script is absolutely work, no matter how anyone may try to spin things, and work needs to be compensated. The fact that the industry has been able to get away with not paying for work is insulting.
Either you believe in the dignity of work, or you don’t, there’s no compromise on non-payment versus payment.

Then, let it burn. Maybe from the ashes, a phoenix. They ought to start from scratch anyway.

[ranger1rg]

I'm sorry, but if you're both-sidsing this, you haven't been paying attention.

 

[Contessa Donatella]

Please register in order to view this content

[Vee]

 

[Vee]

 

[DRW50]

I assume that means they know this will drag on for a long time and they are girding their loins. So many in the press have already been carrying water for them and now just have even more incentive. I saw that the Deadline article tried to frame this as the AMPTP being outfoxed by the nimble, scheming WGA. You can tell they are shaken up that more of the public aren't supportive of them (even if most of the public is probably very apathetic toward everyone involved).

[Vee]

If they had the majority of the public (or the press, beyond some of the trades and some particularly embarrassing flacks like Sharon Waxman who put her foot in it the other day) they wouldn't be hiring a crisis firm.

[DRW50]

I don't think they have the majority of the public (the press I'm not too sure of), but I do think in some cases apathy ends up being as persuasive. 

They mostly know they can just keep waiting the WGA and SAG out with all the piles of cash they are sitting on, but I guess this crisis firm is a way to try to flex and speed things up.

[Contessa Donatella]

I was just talking to someone who works in the business & they were saying that everyone who works in the business, be it props, hair, makeup, wardrobe, sets, engineers, other tech, etc, everyone is 100% behind the strikers! And then they pointed out that most of those people are being hurt economically because of the strike but that the strikers are right about pay & residuals, etc. & the producers are just wholly in the wrong. And "everyone knows it." 

[Vee]

Good luck loading Twitter at all atm, but I'm posting this link blind just in case:

 

[DRW50]

This is also true of France:

Funny how the people who keep saying take the deal now because all productions will flee never mention these other countries.