![]() ![]() “You make billions/pay us some!” WGA members repeated near a Wall Street shooting location for the seventh and final season of Billions, which is now at a standstill, according to Deadline. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. “While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. Writing does not stop when filming begins,” the message began. Stranger ThingsĬreators Matt and Ross Duffer tweeted their support of the writers’ strike on May 6, confirming that production on the show’s final season was on pause. Filming wrapped on Friday amidst protests near production, according to Variety. The fourth season of the Paramount+ series has shut down, ending the season early as a cast member takes a leave of absence to tend to a personal family matter. Instead, “time simply ran out” on script rewrites from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, and production will resume when the strike ends. The first major Hollywood film to shut down after the strike, Mahershala Ali’s Marvel film was set to begin filming next month in Atlanta, per The Hollywood Reporter. Season two of the Apple TV+ series has shut down, Deadline reports, after both WGA members and IATSE members demonstrated outside New York’s York Studios with teamsters refusing to cross picket lines. “We will not be filming until a fair deal is reached.” Severance “Like many of my fellow showrunners, I feel as though my writing & producing duties are inextricably linked,” Hall wrote. The third season of the Starz series has paused production in Atlanta, creator and showrunner Katori Hall tweeted on May 10. After being briefed on the Saturday showrunner meeting, I informed Chris Keyser at the WGA on Sunday morning that I would also be ceasing all non-writing producing functions,” showrunner Tony Gilroy said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter after a WGA member accused him of “scabbing” by working on season two of the Star Wars series, which is in production on its second season, mid-strike. “I discontinued all writing and writing-related work on Andor prior to midnight, May 1. Filling in for the final three episodes will reportedly be Ken Jennings, who shares hosting duties with Bialik. Ahead, a look at the shows and movies shutting down mid-strike.įor the final week of filming on the game show’s 39th season, host Mayim Bialik will step away in solidarity with the writers’ strike, Deadline reports. But other series that were previously in production have ground to a halt. Instead, non-writing executive producers will shepherd the last leg of shooting. Payne and Patrick McKay, sources told Variety. The same goes for Prime Video’s T he Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, although the show will complete its final 19 days of filming sans showrunners and executive producers J.D. Meanwhile, UK filming on House of the Dragon season two will continue, as scripts have been finalized, a production source told Variety , although, as it currently stands, any rewriting by WGA members would be prohibited. But I’ll be watching from home and hope you will join me.” And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait. ![]() “Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of their creation. “I have listened to the writers, and in order to truly respect them, I will pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live in solidarity with the strike,” she said in a statement to Variety. She has, however, committed to emceeing next year’s ceremony. Though the ceremony will move ahead, Barrymore will appear only in pretaped segments. In solidarity with the union efforts, Drew Barrymore was out as live host of Sunday’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. In the first week since the Writers Guild of America announced a strike, multiple productions have been stalled or otherwise impacted, as they were during the last writers strike of ’07-08. Roughly 12,000 of Hollywood’s film and TV writers are out of the office and on the streets, picketing for a new and fair contract with the industry’s major studios. ![]()
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