Hollywood’s Path of Mutually Assured Destruction

David Young
Writers Guild of America West Executive Director David Young during a 2008 press conference. Photo: Toby Canham/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
November 11, 2022

As usual, everyone in town seems to know definitively whether there will be a disastrous Writers Guild strike on May 1. Good for you, but I’d argue that’s a bit silly and premature; the Directors Guild hasn’t even started negotiating, as is expected soon, and those talks typically set the tone for SAG-AFTRA and the WGA It’s a nuanced process.