Spent some time on the line at Sony Pictures Entertainment this morning in the Heart of Screenland, aka Culver City. Couldn’t help but wonder what the legendary lion of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, would’ve made of all of this. (Don’t really have to wonder much. Way, way back in the history of the film colony, in the pre-guild days, Mayer and other moguls thought the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — an org Mayer famously spearheaded — was a perfectly good entity to represent the interests of creative talent. No kidding.)
The crowd of pickets outside the main entrance off Washington Boulevard at the Madison gate was small-ish but determined and resolute, and offered the kind of contrasts among strikers that only reinforces how broad-based the support is among WGA members for the guild’s fight.
Adam Farasati and Ethan Furman are screenwriting partners who just entered the guild this year. The two not too long ago sold a script to Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures for a family-type pic, “The Creepy Kid,” about the adventures of, well, a geeky kid. And they penned the comedy “Rock Paper Scissors” that might be fast-tracked to start lensing in January.
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“The strike is tough — everything is just on hold for us,” Farasati said. “If our first project (‘Rock’) starts being filmed and we can’t be on the set — that’s heartbreaking,” Furman said.
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