Exactly. It was commiseration among brothers-in-arms, and it wound up in a blog on the Internet. You know what happens then.
Writer's strike ending... will the script get reworked?
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Exactly. It was commiseration among brothers-in-arms, and it wound up in a blog on the Internet. You know what happens then.
This may be a question of sematics, but couldn't Abrams do the things "within the normal realm" of directing or "within industry standards" of what a director normally does, such as add a great line or two?
What I'm trying to say is that if a "director" is allowed to do this, then why would a director who just happens to also have a WGA union card be disqualified from doing his "normal directorial duties" such as suggesting a line to an actor?
If Abrams in good conscience can say "I added that line in the course of doing my normal directorial duties, not as a writer", then I don't see why that would have been a problem. I'm not talking loopholes here -- that's why I said "in good conscience".
An ad lib on the set has to be written down afterward, and added to the script. This is necessary for production reasons among others.
If the line is contributed by a member of the WGA, they're bound by the WGA MBA. It is that simple.
It's extremely unlikely that, as a writer and a member of the WGA, Abrams would say in good conscience that any writing he performed on the set was not writing. If he'd felt that he could add that line in good conscience doubtless he would have.
I find it doubtful that anything of significance will be done to the script at this point. Correct me if I'm wrong but principal photography wraps in March, right? So you can mess with those scenes still yet to be shot and can do some stuff in pick-ups and post, but really, the script they started with is essentially going to be what we see on screen. Much more so than most films, I'd wager.
Dennis --
Maybe you answered my question or maybe you didn't (I can be quite thickheaded sometimes), but if a director is NOT part of the WGA, was he "allowed" to add lines a few lines during the strike?...and when I write "allowed", I mean could he have done it without pissing off the guild.
Is a director allowed to add a few lines without it actually being called "writing"?
Maybe you answered my question or maybe you didn't (I can be quite thickheaded sometimes), but if a director is NOT part of the WGA, was he "allowed" to add lines a few lines during the strike?...and when I write "allowed", I mean could he have done it without pissing off the guild.
Is a director allowed to add a few lines without it actually being called "writing"?
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^^ Thank you. That's interesting.
So the second-unit director can suggest lines to actors (as long as he is not in the WGA), but the primary director cannot because he IS a member.
^^ Thank you. That's interesting.
So the second-unit director can suggest lines to actors (as long as he is not in the WGA), but the primary director cannot because he IS a member.
Spock travels back in time to prevent a time travel... but has to travel through time to implement the change... but he wants to prevent time travel... but he has to time travel to make it work!!! GAAAH!!! It's too much for my mind to handle!!!
That sound like something Kirk would say if he wanted a computer/android to get stuck in a "logic loop".archeryguy1701 said:
Spock travels back in time to prevent a time travel... but has to travel through time to implement the change... but he wants to prevent time travel... but he has to time travel to make it work!!! GAAAH!!! It's too much for my mind to handle!!!
darkwing_duck1
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Hollywood union rules are some of the strictest ever written in terms of defending each separate guild's "turf" on the set. Two loose nails on a set that are 6 inches away from each other may be the responisbility of entirely different guilds to fix depending on the circumstances.
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^^ That's like this variation on the old joke:
Electrician's Union worker #1: "How many Teamsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Electrician's Union worker #2: "A Teamster should be nowhere NEAR that lightbulb."
^^ That's like this variation on the old joke:
Electrician's Union worker #1: "How many Teamsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Electrician's Union worker #2: "A Teamster should be nowhere NEAR that lightbulb."
darkwing_duck1
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Except it's TRUE...
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True... some speculations are better than others. Waaaay back when I said this film would be about how Kirk meet Spock, I was laughed at and had my threads trolled into the dust. Well, it's funny how my intuition isn't so close to the various speculations on Byzantine Romulan plots, time inversions with Section31, and the obligatory ENT reference.
True... some speculations are better than others. Waaaay back when I said this film would be about how Kirk meet Spock, I was laughed at and had my threads trolled into the dust. Well, it's funny how my intuition isn't so close to the various speculations on Byzantine Romulan plots, time inversions with Section31, and the obligatory ENT reference.
