The End is Nigh.. for the Writers I Mean
Nathan Beaman
The writer’s strike has been a nightmare for a lot more people than it appears in the surface. There are countless number of crew workers that have hit hard times in a production slow down or in some cases, a halt. A friend of mine at Paramount had me out on lot a week ago and there was absolutely nothing shooting. I was lucky enough to catch a peak at people breaking down the sets for J.J. Abrams new Star Trek Movie, though there wasn’t much going on otherwise.
Besides crew members being affected, rental houses and other industries have taken a hit as well. If you start to factor in the triple trickle down theory (where a production dollar is spent three times by the employer to pay, the employee to purchase and the place of purchase to sustain) the economic effects get really nasty real quick. Thank god the strike is coming to an end. I’ve been in LA for the past month working on a Reality TV series, one of the few areas minimally affected by the strike.
Here is an article in the Hollywood Reporter about how things are getting prepared to be ramped up as the strike cools down. Hopefully any pending actors strike this summer will be quickly resolved!
February 12th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
The strike has really made life out here miserable for just about anybody - including jobs that are barely on the periphery of the industry. Not that I didn’t support the strike - but I’m glad it is ending.