“Pay your writers or spoil the end of Succession“. “Do you want to know how it ends The last of us?” This was said by some of the posters carried by the scriptwriters who mobilized in Hollywood in the framework of a strike involving once a thousand people. Claim: salary improvements and working conditions in an industry that is undergoing change.
This strike is the first that the Writers Guild of America –the writers union of the United States – carried out since the one that took place between 2007 and 2008, and that lasted for more than one hundred days. Back then, series like breaking bad they had to overcome that situation in their first season. It had been thought to have nine chapters but the scriptwriters’ strike forced it to be cut; This meant that, for example, Jesse Pinkman –Walter White’s disciple– did not die as planned in the original script. Something that later turned out to be good for the series.
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What do the writers ask for?
As everywhere in the world where there is a strike, the basic demand is similar. This is, renegotiate salaries and review working conditions. In the case of Hollywood scriptwriters -who number once a thousand people-, issues such as percentages of royalties that series and films generate with sales abroad were also put on the negotiating table; the Negative that free work is offeredand even regulate the use of lan artificial intelligence in the creative process of scripts, and other issues that lead to “devaluing the profession of writing.” And in the official statement, the Writers Guild of America added that “like many workers (in the United States), as corporate profits rise, screenwriters’ salaries are stagnant.”
What Hollywood companies does this creative strike affect?
Scam Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony The writers union of the United States (Writers Guild Of America) was negotiating for six weeks until Monday, May 1, they declared a strike.
Who are the first affected by the strike of scriptwriters?
The “late night shows” where even the performance of their drivers that may seem spontaneous, is not. Everything follows a script where little is left free to chance. These “late night” affected are, for example, those of Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers, to mention the most successful. In the event that the strike is extended, it is expected that they can continue -or recover- without scriptwriters.
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What do Hollywood companies say?
The Chamber of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) issued a statement 48 hours after the scriptwriters’ strike began. There, for example, they point out that companies cannot be forced to have a writers room in a fixed way, but rather the project for which you are working must be considered and that will define the number of scriptwriters necessary to carry it out. And they also point out that the salary increase that was given at the beginning of the year is, according to them, the highest granted in the last twenty-five years.
What does the use of “artificial intelligence” imply according to Hollywood studios?
Artificial intelligence causes creative and even legal questions for all, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said in its statement. “In general, the best stories, the most original, are products of their own experiences or of the inventiveness of the writers,” they detailed. “But for example, these –the scriptwriters– they want to be able to use artificial intelligence as part of his creative process, without changing how the credits of the script are determined. This creates a complication because what is produced by artificial intelligence is not copyrighted or copyright”. This is a debate that this chamber raised and promised to have with the writers.
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