I didn’t think this had to come to a strike. It really felt like a collision with an iceberg. “The tone and the tenor of everything was incredibly different in 2007. He said he didn’t think there was going to be a strike this year. An estimated 300-400 people on hand under sunny skies, grabbing some of the 100s of signs dropped off by a worker driving a rented van.Īlso on the ground was Home Economics co-creator and co-showrunner John Aboud, who picketed Disney during the 2007 strike, too. Alameda Avenue down Buena Vista Street and left on Riverside Boulevard in front of ABC. It then marched around to Gower Street.Īdam Conover, WGA negotiating committee member, seen at #WritersStrike outside of Netflix in LA today /yybKfsJTtl- Deadline Hollywood May 2, 2023Īt Disney’s headquarters in Burbank, writers were getting their steps in, walking the entire block around the main lot, from the gate at W. Pay your writers like you should” as the group picketed at the main gate on Van Ness Avenue. Picket slogans varied from the more serious (“Which Side Are You On?”, “Writing Is A Job Not A Hobby,” “Stand With Working Class Creators”) to the more tongue in cheek - among them, “AI has no soul,” “It’s giving corporate greed,” “Nobody puts the WGA in a corner” and “Our Apartments Are Mini Rooms too.” Others included “Eat Bob Iger” and “Fuck Zaslav to the Max,” “Insert ChatGPT Joke Here!”, “We Just Want 2% From The 1%” and “TAKE THE NOTE.”Īmong the picketers was Betsy Thomas, the WGA West’s secretary-treasurer, who said she felt the studios are “devaluing writers in every area, and in every area they exhibited a real lack of at best understanding and at worst interest in changing the situation.”Īt Netflix in Los Angeles, more than 200 protesters took to the picket line just after 1:30 p.m., chanting “Hey Netflix, you’re no good. Hundreds gather for the #WritersStrike outside of the FOX lot in LA today /5E8QXdsUCf- Deadline Hollywood May 2, 2023 We’ll hold out until we get what’s fair to the average writer, no matter what,” he said. “It’s important for all of us to get a share of streaming because that’s what the future is the way that the contract is written doesn’t take that into account. I think it’s all designed to get more work for less money, writing things for free. The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean told Deadline all writers are in the same boat. The picket lines in New York for the Peacock Newfront ended for the day around 6:30pm ET. RELATED: Dispatches From WGA Picket Lines Day 2: ‘SNL’s Bowen Yang, Krista Vernoff, Michael Schur, Cynthia Nixon Among Those Marching To Support Writers Strike So I don’t think it’s unreasonable to get some language of understanding.” It could make decisions about what movies to greenlight and not to greenlight or who to hire and fire,’ they would find that incredibly offensive, and they’d want some kind of protection to make sure that that wasn’t going to happen. “I’m sure that if someone said to Jeff Bezos or David Zaslav, or, you know, or Bob Iger, ‘Hey, an artificial intelligence could do your job. “I think that from a from a perspective of the writer, we just want to make sure that we’re all on the same page - that AI is going to be used as a tool for everyone not as a replacement,” he told Deadline. RELATED: WGA Strike Photos: Stars, Writers, Showrunners & Their Supporters On The Picket Line
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