George R.R. Martin Calls Mini Rooms ‘Abominations’: ‘The WGA Needs to Win on That Issue’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld George R.R. Martin wrote another impassioned blog post about the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, doubling down on his support for the Guild while honing in on what he believes is the strike’s most pressing issue: mini rooms.
Writers in Hollywood are fighting for a number of key issues, among them the dissolution of the mini-room model, which enables studios to hire fewer writers, make them as disposable as possible and divorce them from the production process, which is pivotal for compensation and career growth.
As Martin puts it on his Not a Blog website, getting rid of mini rooms “is the most important of the things that the Guild is fighting for.
The right to have that kind of career path. To enable new writers, young writers, and yes, prose writers, to climb the same ladder… Streamers and shortened seasons have blown the ladder to splinters.” Martin, best known for penning the “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels and serving as a writer and co-executive producer on HBO’s hit adaptation “Game of Thrones,” first entered Hollywood as a writer on “The Twilight Zone” and the 1987 “Beauty and the Beast” television series.
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