I say to myself, ‘Never again’, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes - and a writer I am not.” “We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. “Then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do,” Craig later recounted. The James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” was one of many films rushed into production during the 2007-2008 strike with what Daniel Craig called “the bare bones of a script.” And in the meantime, not having writers available for rewrites can have a dramatic effect on quality. But if a strike persisted through the summer, fall schedules could be upended.
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Scripted series and films will take longer to be affected. “And it would really be a miserable thing for people to have to go through, especially considering we’re on the heels of that awful pandemic that affected, not just show business, but all of us.” “It doesn’t just affect the writers, it affects all the incredible non-writing staff on these shows,” Meyers said. On Friday’s episode of “Late Night,” Seth Meyers, a WGA member who said he supported the union’s demands, prepared viewers for re-runs while lamenting the hardship a strike entails. Jay Leno wrote his own monologues, a move that angered union leadership. During the 2007 strike, late-night hosts eventually returned to the air and improvised material. The most immediate effect of the strike viewers are likely to notice will be on late-night shows and “Saturday Night Live.” All are expected to immediately go dark. The last WGA strike went for 100 days, beginning in 2007 and ending in 2008. When Hollywood writers have gone on strike, it’s often been lengthy. Netflix has pumped the breaks on spending growth. Discovery is cutting costs to lessen its debt. Many studios and production companies are slashing spending. The guild has said more flexibility for writers is needed when they’re contracted for series that have tended to be more limited and short-lived than the once-standard 20-plus episode broadcast season. Hollywood’s trade assocation said Monday that the primary sticking points to a deal revolved around those mini-rooms - the guild is seeking a minimum number of scribes per writer room - and duration of employment restrictions. The use of so-called mini-writers rooms has soared.
More writers - roughly half - are being paid minimum rates, an increase of 16% over the last decade. Many of the back-end payments writers have historically profited by – like syndication and international licensing – have been largely phased out by the onset of streaming. The guild is seeking more compensation on the front-end of deals. Showrunners on streaming series receive just 46% of the pay that showrunners on broadcast series receive, the WGA claims. But WGA members say they’re making much less money and working under more strained conditions. Streaming has exploded the number of series and films that are annually made, meaning more jobs for writers. “The survival of our profession is at stake,” the guild has said.
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Writers say they aren’t being paid enough, TV writer rooms have shrunk too much and the old calculus for how residuals are paid out needs to be redrawn. The writers last month voted overwhelming to authorize a strike, with 98% of membership in support.Īt issue is how writers are compensated in an industry where streaming has changed the rules of Hollywood economics. In a statement, the trade association said that it was prepared to improve its offer “but was unwilling to do so because of the magnitude of other proposals still on the table that the guild continues to insist upon.”Ī shutdown has been widely forecast for months due to the scope of the discord. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade association that bargains on behalf of studios and production companies, said it presented an offer with “generous increases in compensation for writers as well as improvements in streaming residuals.”
“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing,” the WGA said in a statement. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
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