Strike Update

[karapetkov]

From a third-party perspective, this looks mighty insulting, to writers as a group.

Looks a little like a knife in the back. Not nice.

I'm going to NYC for a little while for a vacation. I hope the WGA doesn't give so much as a millimeter, until they get exactly what they want.

I hope they'll withstand and get better terms.

 

[Sad Max]

I don't think it's a knife-in-the-back, in that it's time for the DGA to renegotiate their deal, and they aren't obliged to make anything regarding the writers a precondition of their deal.

The annoying part is that what the writers are requesting is obviously possible, if the DGA's requests could simply be handed over without fuss. It really comes off like an expression of contempt (big surprise...)

 

[karapetkov]

A-ha, so the studios treat the DGA and WGA differently?

 

[Blaine]

This exchange from The Player isn't too far off from what some in Hollywood think of writers:

How about 'Mud slide kills
in slums of Chile?

That's good. Triumph over tragedy.
Sounds like a John Boorman picture.

Slap a happy ending on it,
the script will write itself.

 

[Sad Max]

The writers have dropped a key demand - the organization of reality-show and animation writers - in order to get things back to the table.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22791079/

 

[Blaine]

The writers have dropped a key demand - the organization of reality-show and animation writers - in order to get things back to the table.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22791079/

Everybody KNOWS that you don't need writers on reality programs because it's REAL...right? :huh: