Minutes after the Writers Guild of America declared it was on strike, members lit up social media with vows to remain robust as they put together to hit the picket strains on Tuesday.
Information of the strike, which takes impact later this night, got here late Monday after the guild’s negotiations with the AMPTP failed to succeed in an settlement on a brand new movie and scripted TV contract. It’s the WGA’s first strike because the 100-day walkout of 2007-08.
Response on Twitter was swift. “Right here we go,” wrote David Simon (The Wire, Murder: Life on the Avenue). “See you all on the pavement, my brothers and sisters.” He adopted it with the hashtag #WGAstrong.
Some expressed worry however that was rapidly changed by resolve, as scribes inspired fellow members to disregard the spin “that’s already popping out.”
“We’re on strike,” wrote Invoice Wolkoff (Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds). “Now we have the entire city behind us. And we’ve got our work. They don’t. We’ll emerge with a good deal.”
“Cry havoc and let slip the canine of warfare!” proclaimed Thunder Levin, the mastermind thoughts the Sharknado franchise.
