Could the Writer's strike be a way to start arresting Hollywood without anyine noticing?
🤔💭 Theory 😲💡
If everyone in Hollywood were to disappear overnight, everyone would notice. Not the case if there's a writer strike happening.
Maybe when the strike is over, the public will already have a good idea about their evils.
Maybe not all of Hollywood is taken down, but enough executives and producers to put a halt to things.
Maybe this is dumb. Just putting it out there.
I am what you could consider to be a “below the line” insider. It’s a good paying job with great benefits/healthcare and we are insulated from whatever is going on up top, so please don’t judge. Your theory has merit. One thing that I would point out is to look at all of the A listers donating to the SAG/WGA charities. There are a lot of really big names making enormous donations to various charities that affect those impacted by the strike. Sure, people are out of work and its helpful, but could there be other reasons besides tax write-offs? Comms perhaps? Who can say. It reminded me of when all those elected officials were tweeting about getting covid. Addendum: This is an industry where NDA’s are rampant so even if there we’re arrests I assume it’s total press blackout.
Good points. I did a couple of local projects with a neighbor who was a director & flew up for work in Hollywood occasionally.
Just for the indipendent projects he did the amount of paperwork I had to sign as a stand-in & personal assistant were crazy.
Wish I could say for certain this is likely the case, though it has been over 20 years since I have done anything with film.