‘They Think We’re Uber Drivers’: Striking Writers Are Pissed

CULVER CITY, California—Chanting echoed across most of Culver City on Tuesday, the day after the Writers’ Guild of America called for a strike in Hollywood. Movie and TV studios failed to come to a deal with the union by May 1, leading to an industry-wide halt of all writing, from writers’ rooms that contribute to late-night television and series like Abbott Elementary to screenwriters working on films of all budgets and sizes.

Seeing as both the Sony Pictures and Amazon Studios lots are saddled together in Culver City, picketers waded throughout the area armed with clever signs, good humor, and energy to last them as long as the studios refuse to come to the table.

Over at the Amazon Studios lot, it was Disney Channel screenwriter and strike captain Nicholas Geisler who took charge in leading the strike shouts. Though he took a break to control the strike’s traffic as he chatted with The Daily Beast, someone within the crowd held his book of chants, a protest strategy he learned in his past work at Greenpeace.

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