That Variety piece just lists the bullet points, really. I heard a much more comprehensive report on NPR, but that was over the air. (Maybe a transcript of that is available, but I don't have a link.)
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Bad Batch Season 3 might not be disrupted as writers for animated productions are usually covered by The Animation Guild which is not on strike and is not joining the pickets.
True enough, though ADR is hardly exclusively done for rewrites in post. Most of the time they're just looping the exact same dialogue for a clean track in the mix. Hell, most Star Wars movies are looped. You can count on one hand the number of times on-set audio made it to the final edit on ANH. ("into the garbage cute flyboy" leaps to mind, and you can really tell how much background clatter was going on.)
All that said, picking out when to and when not to do post production work based on strike conditions is bound to be a headache, so I can understand if a showrunner would rather just disengage entirely . . . but that also arguably puts them in breach of contract, which means they could be dismissed. It's never as simple as some make it out to be.
I said 2 didn't I? I meant 3.
Well that's always the risk in any strike. What makes the difference is how powerful a respective union is. If they have enough influence, they can make sure nobody that crosses a picket line works in their field ever again. That should discourage most that want to continue working in the industry. Doesn't stop them hiring unqualified people of course, but good luck keeping that up for any length of time without massively degrading the end product, and likely encouraging other unions to also strike just on general principle.
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I don't see a transcript, but this report came up when I searched NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/21/1094149570/hollywood-writers-continue-striking
Right, I wasn't implying otherwise, but rather noting that dialog can be and sometimes is changed in post, with the changes looped in with all the other ADR.
I love this video. I just found it today.
I'm shocked I didn't notice before that the prison Cassian was in is shaped like the Imerial symbol.
Eh, not really. I mean in the very general sense of "vaguely round wheel-ish thing with spokes" it's not entirely dissimilar; but the details are all wrong. The perimeter is a heptagon not a circle. There's seven spokes, not six (or the Republic cog's eight), and they're radially even, not inversely tapered. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the initial idea, but they pulled back since it would be a little too on the nose. It should also be worth noting that the original design itself was inspired by the layout of certain late medieval/early renaissance fortifications, so there coudl be an element of unintentional convergence here.
Now, the base on Scarif on the other hand; that explicitly has the same layout as the Imperial cog IIRC.
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The show has been nominated for two Emmys! Best Drama and Best Writing for a Drama Series (for "One Way Out").
I'd be surprised if it wins either category; 'Better Call Saul' and 'Last of Us' are some pretty stiff competition. (Says the person that fell off watching Saul after just two seasons and never got back around to it.)
As a huge fan of Better Call Saul, I don't expect it to win. The Emmys don't seem to care for the show enough to give it any actual wins. I mean, it ignored Rhea Seehorn for years before they finally even nominated her. [/bitter rant]
I guess I just figured now it's over, it'll get the 'Return of the King' "oh shit, we almost forgot about this franchise!" award treatment.
