What is the next step for the writers?
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is Over, but the Actors’ Strengths Can Drag On Heres-W. Source: A New York Times Observer Report
“I think that we got everything that we really, really wanted,” Writers Guild East president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen told the still-striking performers at a rally in New York for the actors union SAG-AFTRA a few days ago. “We didn’t get everything, and you guys won’t either. But I think you’re gonna get most of it.”
As the guild secured a favorable deal with the Hollywood studios last week, the union’s members are hoping for a similar outcome in Monday’s talks. Some people think the strikes are over.
“We’ve got a great negotiating team,” said actor Jeff Rector, whose credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation and American Horror Story among many other films and TV shows over a career spanning more than 40 years. “Hopefully it will be resolved quickly now that the strike has ended.”
“That deal has been reached, I think really bodens well for moving forward for the guild, as far as I am concerned,” said Todd Williams, assistant professor of entertainment media management.
Holmes said the actors union should feel encouraged by the writers’ wins, like higher residuals and protections against being replaced by artificial intelligence.
“This is what you would call ‘pattern bargaining,’ where usually one deal is worked out with one union, and then when the other union has a lot of similar things that they’ve been asking for, then that usually falls in line pretty quickly and agreement is reached,” Holmes said.
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But SAG-AFTRA strike captain Kate Bond, who’s best known for her role in the reboot of the TV series MacGyver, said she isn’t so certain about a speedy outcome.
Bond said unlike the WGA, the actors union represents many types of performers — actors, dancers, stunt people — each with specific needs that need to be addressed.
Some background actors say that they’ve had their bodies scanned for reuse because of the threat of artificial intelligence.
Visibility on the picket line is important to getting the kind of leverage and deal that they should be getting. Hollywood cannot happen unless they get back to work.
Some writers, such as Keshni Kashyap, who penned the Netflix series Special, are still planning to show up. If it hadn’t been for the actors’ support, the union wouldn’t have been able to make a good deal.
And I also still hope that the actors who are still on strike are able to get a great deal and get some of the same protections and gains that we were able to.
I’m really excited to go back to work, and I know that we’ve all been very excited to go back. I sympathize with people who are currently looking for work.
The Hollywood writers strike is over. What’s next for the writers? A humorous remark on the bouncing in the ’80s
Some of the more fun stuff is generated when you go down rabbit holes with people. I missed the feeling of bouncing off other people in a room.
I love just those weird little tangents that you go on when everyone’s in a room like, “OK, what was this weird McDonald’s character that they discontinued in the ’80s? And why were people mad about it?”
What’s next for the writers? The Hollywood writers strike is over. What’ll we do? I’m all you, I’ll play the banjo
“Hey, we should be paid for this because it’s TV and we deserve to be paid for this” is something that will be codified. I also think the gains are pretty significant. I think that film and TV is being hijacked by tech overlords who want to turn film and TV into, like, content sludge that we slurp up. There has been this draw I think that this is the first step in saying that writing is work. A robot can’t communicate with us. I think it’s important that the human is binding to art, so not all poetic or anything, but binding them to art. I think that it’s a fundamental thing about art that can’t be taken away.
I was able to write in the first month or two. But towards the second half of it or so, there was just so much anxiety and emotion built up in terms of just trying to figure out where the strike was going and trying to continue to make ends meet, and also just worrying about being out on the lines and the uncertainty of it all, that I just wasn’t really writing very much.
The five months were very hard. I like to write. It’s one of my favorite things to do. And even when I’m not working I still kind of do it on the side for my own things.
I picked up the banjo. When we were on strike, I bought a banjo so I could learn how to play it, but forgot how to play the banjo.
Source: The Hollywood writers strike is over. What’s next for the writers?
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What’s the big deal? If you’re following this story, you’ll know the many hours of negotiating and organizing that went into getting a historic deal between the striking writers and studios.
