Deadline: Hollywood studios plan to destroy the Writers Guild of America

According to the well-known film and television media Deadline, regardless of whether the Motion Picture Producers Guild of America strike begins, Hollywood film companies will not make concessions to screenwriters who have already started the strike.

According to an industry veteran with a Hollywood studio executive, Hollywood studios are planning to simply wait it out until the striking writers run out of money. Surprisingly, the studios themselves are not even trying to hide this. In an interview with Deadline, an executive publicly stated that studios such as Warner Bros., Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney and Paramount are planning to "destroy the Writers Guild of America."

“The goal is to delay this process until union members start running out of money to pay rent,” one studio executive told Deadline.

The studios and the Producers Guild believe some screenwriters will exhaust their savings by October. A Deadline source acknowledged that this is a cruel tactic, but he called it a "necessary evil." Hollywood executives believe that in this situation, union members will turn around and ask the studios to resume negotiations, and the studios will be in a favorable position to negotiate.