Barely 10 days have passed since the beginning, but the first consequences of the Hollywood writers’ strike are already here.
The writers strike It has already paralyzed the reference series of Netflix and HBO Max. And this has only just begun…
On May 2, one of the key pieces of any series or movie, and also the most mistreated, decided to stop to ask for a salary increase. The scriptwriters are responsible for the plots and the dialogues that hook us in the series, and without them the actors or directors are nothing.
However, except for a few star writers, They are low-paid anonymous figures, who do not matter to anyone, and who suffer from overexploitation.
How will the writers’ strike affect us viewers?
He Writers Guild of America (WGA) asks better salariesand for now the producers are not willing to give them to them.
In 2008 there was a similar strikewhich they called the 100-day strike, because it lasted a few months. Many series were paralyzed, others were cancelled, and some hired amateur screenwriters outside the union, which led to Terrible series and seasons.
The industry had losses of hundreds of millionsand the spectators also suffered the consequences, with the stoppage of your favorite series, or the drop in quality.
Something similar could happen with this new strike. for now, Netflix and company have stopped the series that were in productionbecause the writers write and rewrite scenes until the last minute, and it is not possible to continue.
but even the series in pre-production that they were choosing the casting, like season 2 of The Last of Us, they have had to stop. A detail that Variety tells, via HobbyConsolas, helps us to realize that scriptwriters are very important in all stages of filming a series.
As we say, The Last of Us was making the casting of the new characters of season 2but they have had to stop because a scriptwriter always participates in the choice of actorswho is the one who knows how said character has to behave, or the type of personality that he has to project.
If a scriptwriter does not give the go-ahead, an actor is not hired.
Netflix shows like Cobra Kai either stranger things have also confirmed the stoppage of the new seasonwhile their showrunners sympathize with the writers on Twitter:
Other important series like Wednesday, The Witcher, or Vikings: Valhalla, Although they have not said anything, surely they will also have to stop, as they are in the middle of the filming process.
Netflix will be the most affectedbecause it is the one that produces the most series, but they are all affected equally.
If the strike is prolonged, they will not last to cancel series foreveror in hire writers outside the union. In the previous strike it did not go well, because the best are inside. Some series suffered a significant drop in quality.
Now it’s different, because there are many more platforms and more competition. They are all terrified of losing users. Who will win in this tug of war of the writers against the producers? win, no one The solution, as always, will be to reach the “less bad” agreement for both parties.