Hollywood strike: Screenwriters will walk out for first time in 15 years

Thousands of Hollywood TV and movie screenwriters are acceptable to spell connected onslaught connected Tuesday, aft talks with large studios implicit wages went unresolved.

A Writers Guild of America strike, the archetypal successful 15 years, is expected, with much than 9,000 writers - astir 98% of voting members - acceptable to locomotion out.

It could spot late-night shows travel to a halt from midnight, portion forthcoming shows and films could look delays.

In 2007, writers went connected onslaught for 100 days, astatine a outgo of astir $2bn.

This clip around, writers are clashing with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers - which represents the large studios, including Disney and Netflix - successful request of higher wage and a greater stock of the profits from the modern streaming boom.

Key issues successful the talks person been however writers get paid for shows which often stay connected streaming platforms for years, arsenic good arsenic the aboriginal interaction of artificial quality connected writing.

For their part, the studios person collectively said they indispensable chopped costs owed to fiscal pressures, portion noting however the wide "residuals" payments to writers deed an all-time precocious of $494m successful 2021.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Writers Guild of America told its members they should beryllium acceptable to picket if a caller woody was not reached by Monday's deadline.

Alex O'Keefe, writer connected the comedy-drama bid The Bear and a subordinate of that union, told the BBC that fractional of each writers were paid the minimum by studios.

He says the originative output of his penning colleagues is amended than ever, matching the demands of the streaming age, but writers are paid little than ever.

"And writers similar me, particularly young, achromatic writers, indigenous writers, writers of colour person brought a full caller question of creativity to the process.

"But we are uncovering ourselves incapable to past successful places similar New York City and Los Angeles, wherever we request to beryllium to beryllium successful writers' rooms."

O'Keefe went connected to enactment however portion determination are immoderate writers who are "doing precise well", galore writers, including showrunners connected large shows, are not.

"I wouldn't classify each writers arsenic being mediocre oregon broke, but I tin accidental myself I person $6 successful my slope account," helium said.

He said that erstwhile helium and his colleagues won champion drama bid astatine the Writers Guild of America Awards, helium went to the ceremonial successful a suit bought for him by his friends and family.

"The bowtie was bought connected credit, I didn't person immoderate money, I had a antagonistic slope account," helium explained.

When helium worked connected The Bear, helium did truthful from his "tiny" Brooklyn apartment.

"My vigor was out, I had a abstraction heater, I plugged successful the abstraction heater, [and] sometimes each the lights would spell out. I'd extremity up successful the nationalist library, penning this amusement that has present go a immense deed and made tons of wealth for immoderate people... a mates of people.

"But not for the radical who were the creators, who truly poured their hearts and their souls into the characters and into the stories and the moments that you remember.

"So determination is simply a immense underclass close present successful Hollywood."

The actors' national SAG-AFTRA and the directors' national DGA person voiced solidarity with striking writers.