2023-05-16 05:07:32
Since the Hollywood Writers Guild strike (WGA) began on May 2, prestigious series such as ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Cobra Kai’ or ‘The Last of Us’, stopped their productions.
After failing to reach an agreement with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP) for a new collective agreementthe WGA called its more than 10,000 members to an indefinite strike and one day after the previous contract expired, the writers brought the industry to a standstill and almost immediately the first repercussions began to become visible.
Programas nocturnos de entrevistas como ‘The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon’, ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’, ‘The Late Show’, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, e incluso ‘Saturday Night Live’, They stopped making new chapters.
And little by little the number of series of large AMPTP studios such as Netflix, Disney, FX, HBO, Paramount, among others, that they have had to stop the production of their new seasons because of the strike.
The brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, writers and creators of the popular series ‘Stranger Things’ issued a statement saying that They would not continue with the Netflix series until the conflict between the AMPTP and the WGA was not resolved.
Likewise, the writers of ‘Cobra Kai’, also from Netflixthey stopped writing the sixth season of the series derived from the eighties film ‘Karate Kid’.
The popular program starring Pedro Pascal ‘The Last of Us’, de HBO Maxalso put the production of the second season on pause since last January 11.
Similarly, the ABC series, ‘Abbott Elementary’, winner of an Emmy award and a Golden Globe, stopped writing its third season and screenwriter Brittani Nichols assured that the strike could affect the number of chapters that would be broadcast in it.
The creator of the Disney series ‘Andor’, Tony Gilroy, expressed his solidarity with the writers and announced that production of the second season of the story based on a ‘Star Wars’ universe had ceaseddespite the fact that he had already finished the scripts.
While ‘Game of Thrones’ creator George RR Martin confirmed that the production of the series ‘A Knight of Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight’ it was also on hiatus as a result of the conflict.
Other reputable series that have been slowed down by the stoppage are ‘Severance’ de Apple TV+, ‘American Horror Story: Delicate’, de FXwhose season would feature the participation of Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts, the third seasons of Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ and HBO’s ‘Hacks’, among others.
Writers demand pay rises, a fair retribution of the payments that the members of a creative team they receive when their project is broadcast by any means, as well as regulation of artificial intelligence and fixed contracts, to name a few.
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