Will the WGA strike affect "Remastered" production?

[Professor Moriarty]

Now here's an interesting question. (Well, it's interesting to me, anywho. )

The WGA (Writers Guild of America) has forbidden any current and future members from working on animated films during the strike that starts on Monday.

The Animation Guild is part of the IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). And unless I miss my guess, the F/X artists working on Star Trek: Remastered are Guild members.

The WGA is asserting that members who belong to both the WGA and the IATSE cannot work on animated films or TV shows during the strike.

So does that mean that work on Star Trek: Remastered grinds to a halt on Monday?

 

[Gepard]

Why would the IATSE be connected with the WGA? The team on Remastered aren't scripting new material anyway; they're just recreating and tweaking something that was already there. Following the WGA's logic, no actor would be able to ad-lib a line on set based on a completed script during the strike. It doesn't make sense...

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

I thought The Menagerie would finish the Remastered series, beside The Cage of course.

 

[David cgc]

According to Terry Dresbach (Ron Moore's wife), post production on the ten already-filmed episodes of Battlestar Galactica will continue despite the strike, and will be ready to air even if the writers' don't put down a new word for the next ten thousand years. Because of this, and the fact that I haven't heard word one about the writer's strike affecting the VFX industry, I'd assume that production will continue normally.

Besides, if the VFX companies want to stop work, they have more than enough issues of their own to justify their own strike.

EDIT: Removed redundant phrasing because it was redundant.

 

[Kegek]

Actually, with the writers' strike this may encourage more studios to put out remastered versions of old sci-fi shows to fill in vacant slots.

If anything, this is good news for TOS-R - if not anywhere else.