Official WGA Writers Strike thread.

[CharlieDontSurf]

The studios have essentially drawn a line in the sand because they know that within the next 1-5 years the $$$ coming in from the internet downloads and streaming is going to be HUGE. The DVD market is already in decline. They simply do not want to give the writer anything, and it is not so much pure greed just strategy.

They believe they can outlast the writers/WGA and that the writers will eventually go broke and start to fight amongst each other. The studios will then offer a [censored] deal with maybe one or two meaningless improvements which the WGA will grudgingly accept. They also want to send a message to the DGA and SAG that they shouldn't expect much. The studios don't give a [censored] about firing people, layoffs, or cutting producing writing deals...saves them money.

The only problem is I don't think they realize how set in the minds in the WGA are given the lesson of the home video/DVD screwup of years past has been seared in the writers memeory. The WGA trusted the "take this rate, we'll do a 3 year study and then renegotiate the rate afterwards" b.s. that the studios gave them and they got massively burned for it.

I think the writers essentially know that that they are striking till late spring/June barring a miracle or some other force pushing the studios to make a fair deal.

I would imagine that SAG, esp. given their pres., is fully hoping for the writers strike to last till June so once they strike along with the WGA it will cripple the industry and bring the studios to their knees essentially.


and yeah your right...countless screenwriters send gibberish , sometimes in their scripts too which makes them look really bad, but this is a internet message board, not work or career stuff. I don't have great grammar and am terrible at typing but I put way more effort into any writing I do for work/screenwriting/etc compared to here or elsewhere on the interwebs. I should probably put a bit more effort but I'm lazy and doing other stuff at work so I don't. Screenwriters don't have editors do their dirty work though...they have their assistants do it instead.