Small update from Orci on TF2 script and writer's strike |
12-05-2007, 06:33 AM
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#1 | | Dutchman! Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 4,534 Location: Netherlands News Credits: 4 | Small update from Orci on TF2 script and writer's strike
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Originally Posted by Roberto Orci How are you?
As you know, all screenwriters are engaged in a labor dispute with the major studios and media conglomerates that subsidize much, but not all of the media content that we consume. It may go on for a very long time. All the other writers I've talked to on every level are ready to hold out FOREVER, all the while figuring out ways to make a living out of the internet without studios.
So now the hard part for me and Alex and Ehren and all fans of Transformers is that the movie may suffer (unless of course you hate the first one so much that you feel our inattention is a bonus). It may be pushed back or a host of other thing may happen to it. For that we apologize truly.
will keep you posted... | He also said this in a later post: Quote: |
Originally Posted by Takezo Kensei No one can stop you from scribbling down ideas on cocktail napkins.  | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Roberto Orci Even if we were doing that, we are contractually prohibited by the guild from handing those ideas in before the designated contract period of the initial deal. So if we signed the deal the day the strike started, we can't just hand everything in the day the strike ends. We HAVE TO WAIT the 14 weeks specified in the contract. | The thread: http://www.donmurphy.net/board/showthread.php?t=23434 | 
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12-05-2007, 07:01 AM
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#3 | | Nothing to see here Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 641 Location: Leeds, UK News Credits: 6 | I understand that writers who are members of the guild cannot do any work for the studios during this time, but do the studios have to use members of the guild to do the writing or could they, say, pay me a few grand for a script and use that instead?
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12-05-2007, 07:01 AM
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#4 | | Natu´s fanboy Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,328 Location: Portugal Collection Count: 390 | fucking strikers....  | |
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12-05-2007, 07:37 AM
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#6 | | I <3 Roger Ebert Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 7,364 Location: Under a river Collection Count: 400 or so News Credits: 4 | I'm conflicted because on the one hand I want to see TF2 asap but on the other hand the writers are extremely justified in their striking and demands. Alas! | |
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12-05-2007, 07:39 AM
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#7 | | Sorry, Sari. Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 6,091 Location: Malaysia Collection Count: 12...no wait, 13 News Credits: 1 | Can someone break it down for me what this strike is all about again?
The Wikipedia article on this confuses me. @_@ 
^On a stick!^ (Updated 5th Nov 2009: Awkward Encounter) | |
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12-05-2007, 07:47 AM
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#8 | | Argumentative TF Wiki guy Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,001 Location: Sydney, Australia Collection Count: Some. News Credits: 4 | I believe it's to do with the lack of credit and residuals for content on DVDs and online among other things. Quote:
Originally Posted by RobotoChan  I understand that writers who are members of the guild cannot do any work for the studios during this time, but do the studios have to use members of the guild to do the writing or could they, say, pay me a few grand for a script and use that instead? | Then they'd be using scabs. The Hollywood guilds are very powerful, and to use non-union writers would probably mean the studio (or at the very least the production and the producers/directors involved) would be blacklisted by not only the writers guild members, but possibly members of other guilds. | |
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12-05-2007, 07:52 AM
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#9 | | Nothing to see here Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 641 Location: Leeds, UK News Credits: 6 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Fit For natalie I believe it's to do with the lack of credit and residuals for content on DVDs and online among other things.
Then they'd be using scabs. The Hollywood guilds are very powerful, and to use non-union writers would probably mean the studio (or at the very least the production and the producers/directors involved) would be blacklisted by not only the writers guild members, but possibly members of other guilds. | Edit: thanks for replying btw 
Is that really how it works?
Seems a bit odd to me that the company behind a film cannot choose to use a script from a non guild member. I wonder how that particular rule came about? | |
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12-05-2007, 07:54 AM
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#10 | | Banned Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 19,730 Location: malaysia Collection Count: 300! for sparta! News Credits: 2 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Fit For natalie Then they'd be using scabs. | SCAB! SCAB! SCAB! SCAB!
sorry, i just love saying that. | |
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