Judd Apatow thinks Hollywood studios have been preparing for writers to go on strike “for years”
nme.comongoing Writers Guild of America strike will end.Speaking to Variety on Saturday (May 6), Apatow shared that he thinks the ongoing strike is a calculated business move on the part of Hollywood studios, who were unwilling to meet the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) demands.“I think they probably already know what they’re going to bend on,” Apatow said. “I would assume they already know what date this is going to end.
They’ve probably been planning this for years.”“I always think that whatever happens, they could have figured it out already.
When these things conclude, you never go, ‘I understand why it took that long.’ It’s never something so inventive, and groundbreaking, that you think, ‘Oh, people needed to go to war for months over it.’ It’s always a very obvious position.
So that’s what’s scary about it is that there is a solution but I’m not sure that all of the business interests are interested in getting to it quickly.”Apatow also addressed studios’ treatment of writers, saying: “We’re like Twitter’s employees, that if they want to save money, they just get rid of 80 percent of the workforce.
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