"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:20:56 -0500, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>In article
>><everyday-39E323.10140005112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Gerry <everyday@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > Seems to me, if I was a writer, I'd find a way to not cooperate with
>>> > that effort. Or does the network have a backlog of unrecorded
episodes
>>> > in the vaults?
>>>
>>> Well if you didn't cooperate, you won't get paid, writers on strike
>>> don't make much, and the producers just might find another writer to
you
>>> replace you.
>>
>> I know some autoworkers who pull a bunch of overtime when strikes are
>>looming because then they have more savings, can stay out longer before
>>feeling the pinch, and figure (probably quite correctly) that the extra
>>vehicle or two that might get produced wouldn't make all that much
>>difference in letting the company play games. I am supposing largely the
>>same with many writers.
>
> THis was true of movie writers and directors and actors. Scripts
> *have* been banked in prep for the strike and already produced movies
> have been banked for the strike.
>
> Since I'm a Gilmore Girls Geek, I can use Lauren Graham for an
> example: since the show ended, she's done four movie roles (her "Wife
> World Tour" as she puts it) and has been the voice of Kellogg's
> Special K products on television.
>
> Conversely, a few horror movies that were ready for release this
> Halloween are being delayed until next year specifically to make sure
> that the studios have Halloween-themed movies at that time next year.
>
> However, movies have *much* longer lead times than TV shows do, which
> is why X-Files 2 remains unaffected. The script was complete, so they
> can film it, conversely, the turnover time for television scripts is
> so quick that most shows have only 2-3 more episodes to film before
> they run out of scripts, but they've also already finished shooting
> around 3 episodes yet to air besides the 2-3 more that they can shoot,
> so most series are going to have another 5-6 episodes air before the
> strike imposes a hiatus due to lack of scripts. Fortunately, the
> timing coincides more or less with regular winter hiatus anyway, so
> while TV hasn't been able to bank hardly any scripts, the truth of the
> matter is that the filming schedule won't really be disrupted until
> the cast & crew would normally come back after winter hiatus to start
> filming new episodes that won't have been written.
>
> -- Rob
> --
> LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
> It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
> and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
> when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
> ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
> victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
Aren't scripts often rewritten as shooting commences/occurs? What's the
effect of the strike on rewrites/edits?
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