WGA Showrunner Meeting: “There Is No Non-Writing Aspect Of What We Do”
deadline.comA group of top showrunners met today to discuss the WGA strike – a day after it emerged the studios told writer/producers were not excused from producing duties during the labor action.
The meeting was held at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills with the likes of Damon Lindelof, Shawn Ryan and David Steinberg in attendance.
It comes after the majority of studios, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney and Paramount sent out letters to showrunners, telling them to continue to produce. “Those studio emails have had the opposite intended effect now,” one showrunner who attended today’s gathering told Deadline. “Now we are more united, more convinced than ever that there is no non-writing aspect of what we do.” Showrunners have warned that everything they do is writing and many have said that they would not be producing during the strike, which started on Tuesday.
Glen Mazzara, who was showrunner of The Walking Dead, told Deadline yesterday that he stopped performing producing duties on his latest series, AMC’s Beacon 23, which is currently in post-production, in solidarity. “I’m no longer getting my weekly I probably could have said, ‘I’m still going to produce’.
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