This is Day 115 of the WGA strike and Day 42 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. “I can’t believe I’m headlining this,” Tony Gilroy quipped Thursday as the last speaker at a Writers Guild picket in New York City honoring screenwriters.
The Andor creator-writer and Bourne Legacy screenwriter followed three of his contemporaries — former WGA East President Beau Willimon, Mauricio Zacharias and James Hart — in delivering pep talks steeped in Hollywood labor history to more than 300 demonstrators outside Warner Bros.
Disney and Netflix offices. “We cannot be weak,” Gilroy told a picket line that also included actors John Turturro, Jamie Oliver, Stephen Lang and Michael Cyril Creighton.
Staying strong was a theme of speeches coming after negotiations between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers appeared to collapse this week. RELATED: 15 Movies About Labor Unions And Strikes – Photo Gallery The current film and television writers strike — the eighth since 1953 and first in 15 years — is in its 17th week.
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