He may not have any projects currently in active development – although the countdown is most definitely on following the recent emergence of a mysterious new website – but Warrior Nun showrunner Simon Barry has nonetheless railed against the ongoing threats looming over the industry’s striking writers.
With actors now poised to join the scribes on the picket lines, a full-scale shutdown of the entire entertainment industry is on the cards, harking back to the dark days of a decade and a half ago when the reactionary move by the major studios to plunge everything in front of cameras as soon as possible led to a string of tedious, rushed, and altogether disappointing film and television projects.
Of course, the major companies and corporations are always going to be driven by the bottom line above all else, but the prospect of a “waiting out” period that forces the striking Writers Guild of America members to the table in order to safeguard their financial futures is the cruelest possible move on the board.
Unsurprisingly, then, Barry unleashed his NSFW two cents in response to the latest intimations being leveled at the WGA and its wilted dish of word salad attempting to dance around the issue.
There remains countless film and television productions still ongoing in the midst of the strike, but that could be about to change in a cataclysmic way. If writers aren’t working, and then actors join them, then surely there’s no other option left available to the outfits holding back on securing a new pay deal when there literally won’t be anybody left to show up to work to create the content that ultimately drives profits to the levels that keeps the executives happy.
