Possible DGA Strike could hurt STAR TREK?
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1) The Director's Guild rarely strikes. They simply have too much clout for the studios to dick with them the way they do the writers; to some extent, directors are management. It's a fuzzy area.
There's some hope that if the DGA makes a good bargain on Internet payments that the WGA will accept the same terms. The other points of contention for the WGA - reality and animation - are not such big deals (the studios would have you think these are points on which the writers have been intractable. Nope).
If that happens, the studios will probably crow and declare some kind of "victory" - but hey, for most of the rank and file this is about terms...not bragging rights.
2) Principal photography on "Star Trek" is scheduled to wrap before June.
There's some hope that if the DGA makes a good bargain on Internet payments that the WGA will accept the same terms. The other points of contention for the WGA - reality and animation - are not such big deals (the studios would have you think these are points on which the writers have been intractable. Nope).
If that happens, the studios will probably crow and declare some kind of "victory" - but hey, for most of the rank and file this is about terms...not bragging rights.
2) Principal photography on "Star Trek" is scheduled to wrap before June.
The movie will continue without a director, careening wildly out of control.
The directors are not going to strike.
The SAG - which might or might not happen. Shouldn't affect "Star Trek."
In a sense, the DGA is something like the WGA would be if WGA membership consisted entirely or primarily of writers who were also the creators and executive producers of the shows they work on. Such an organization would have a very different stance and different leverage in negotiations.
In a sense, the DGA is something like the WGA would be if WGA membership consisted entirely or primarily of writers who were also the creators and executive producers of the shows they work on. Such an organization would have a very different stance and different leverage in negotiations.
DGA made a deal with the AMPTP. Course this is all much more interesting for its impact on the WGA strike. The DGA was never going to strike, the big issue is what kind of deal they'd make and how the WGA would react.
The directors were pretty concerned with winning some things that the writers can live with - because let's face it, the movies are actually made by directors and actors and writers and a lot of other folk in guilds and unions. These folks work together and want to work together...the studios provide the funding and infrastructure that makes it all possible on the scale that it's done, but successful directors move from project to project and from studio to studio - but they continue to work with or seek out actors and writers and cinematographers, etc that they like.
