I’ve finally figured out why I’m having such a hard time picking a side in the whole WGA strike. I’m on the side of the writers, but I’m not on the side of their union. I really don’t believe the WGA has the faintest idea what it’s doing. For proof, look no further than all the side deals they’ve been making.
First it was David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants, then it was United Artists, now the Writer’s Guild of America has made interim side deals with Lionsgate and Marvel Studios, which will allow writers to get back to work on those companies' projects… while everyone else at every other studio starves. Whatever happened to united Hollywood? United until we can cut a side deal which will allow some of us to go to work while the rest of us take second jobs as waiters? What the hell?
As a strike tactic, it seems sort of stupid. They’re picking and choosing who they picket, when they should be standing strong. Lionsgate and Marvel want their writers back? Great, then let them put pressure on everyone else to cave so that all of the writers and caterers and everyone else who has been put out of work by this farce can go back to work. Instead, Lionsgate and Marvel will now get their writers back and scramble to get the jump on everyone else by putting together projects in mid-strike. It is now in the best interests of Lionsgate and Marvel for the strike to continue. Well done WGA, well done. We can all rest easy now knowing that Saw X will get written.
