The WGA and Studios Just Speed-Ran Their Way to Creative Stagnation

The WGA West and the AMPTP just shook hands on a four-year deal after only three weeks, and the speed of this reconciliation is more suspicious than a third-act plot twist in a Michael Bay movie. We went from months of 'burn it all down' picket lines to 'let’s do lunch' in the time it takes to watch the Lord of the Rings extended editions. Sean Astin and the rest of the guild leadership are calling it industry stability, but when the suits and the scribes make up this fast, it usually means they’ve both agreed to stop fighting and start focusing on the real enemy: quality. I’m looking at the fine print for where they buried the soul of the next decade of cinema. We’re trading the fire of the strike for the lukewarm bathwater of 'content' that won't offend a single shareholder.

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