Judd Apatow is opening up about the ongoing writers’ strike.
The 55 year old man The 40 year old virgin director opened up in conversation with Variety.
During the conversation, he revealed what he thinks about negotiations between writers and studios.
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“I think they probably already know what they’re going to lean on. I guess you already know what date this will end. They have probably been planning this for years,” he said of the studies.
“I always think that whatever happens, they could have found out by now. When these things are over, you never say, ‘I understand why it took so long.’ It’s never something so clever and innovative that you’re like, ‘Oh, people needed to go to war for months over this. It is always a very obvious position. That’s what’s scary, is that there is a solution, but I’m not sure that all commercial interests are interested in getting to it quickly.”
He went on to say that the strike “affects everything because we’re developing a lot of things, so we just have to stop… Then, as soon as the strike ends, everyone says: ‘Oh, now we’re behind, we don’t need anything.’”
“That aspect complicates everything we are trying to do. We are not in the middle of anything other than writing,” he continued.
“We’re like the employees at Twitter, who if they want to save money, they just get rid of 80 percent of the workforce. So it’s an existential problem. If the ecosystem of writers doesn’t exist, no one will learn how to do it. No one can survive doing it. And then everyone will say, ‘Well, maybe I’ll write video games, maybe I’ll do TikToks at home and become an influencer. There are a lot of creative people who can do other things. So you don’t want the whole system to collapse.”
Judd also talked about the wealth of writers.
“We have a system now that doesn’t reward the success of many of these projects. If you do something and a billion people see it, you don’t make any more money than if it were a disaster, right? That’s not good for creativity because it takes a lot of motivation out of creative people, because people work so hard to create some kind of cushion for their lives. All our work is ebb and flow. Successes pay for the moment when things don’t go well. Sometimes they go well and sometimes they don’t, but you can live from the moment you wrote something that had a lot of residue. [fees paid out]. It has always been a tenuous race. But if you take away most of the axles, it’s a race most people can’t survive in.”
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