In an interview with MorePerfectUS, 'The Wire's creator, David Simon, perfectly explained why Hollywood's writers must go on strike.
David Simon, the beloved creator of The Wire, has joined the picket lines of the Writers Guild of America strike to defend the future of Hollywood. During an interview with More Perfect Union, Simon perfectly summarized the reasons for the strike as only a storytelling master can do, explaining the complex legal battle between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in terms anyone can understand.
“For example, when I worked on ‘Homicide,’ there were 22 episodes. So writers had a chance to get more work. We were on staff for longer. The episodes were all – for lack of a better word – episodic, meaning they were all connected into one major story. You couldn't do that with 22. So you couldn't write them all in advance of filming a season. So basically, they needed writers to hang around and make that show work.
Writers are indeed essential to the making of good television. So, keeping a writer’s room is also an important tool to teach the next generation of writers how to handle the many aspects of a TV show’s production. Simon brilliantly sums up this need by saying: ”There's a certain impulse that says, ‘I just got to cut costs. I don't have to grow the business. I don't have, I don't have to make this thing more creative. I don't have to expand the subscriber base and convince more people to take my product. I just got to cut costs.’ It's the simplest, most brutal way. But what it does is mortgage the future.
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