Agencies keep hoping writers will 'fold,' WGAW president says
WGAW exec David Goodman said he believes the major agencies' strategy is to get guild members to tell leadership:"'Stop this fight, you're hurting us, you're never going to win.'"
The executive's comments in the less formal forum — an interview with writers Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jose Molina on their podcast — updated scribes on where the fight stands after the guild failed to reach a new franchise agreement on April 12 and more than 7,000 writers parted ways with their agents.
"I've been surprised by things both positively and negatively," Goodman said. "I'm surprised that the non-big four agencies — the Gersh, Paradigm, APA, Kaplan-Stahler, Rothman Brecher — that those agencies have not signed on" to the guild's "Code of Conduct." "Some of these places do benefit from packaging fees if they have a client who sells a show and that money is significant for them," Goodman told Grillo-Marxuach and Molina on their podcast. "I think also they're hanging together with the big four [agencies] because there is a possibility that the guild folds. And if the guild folds then they get to keep the status quo. And that was the strategy of the agencies and so they're all hanging together in that way.
"Most of the stories that I've heard from writers — I've heard a couple of negative stories, and, again, it's all anecdotal — but most of the stories that I heard were extremely positive," Goodman said. "From both people staffing on shows and showrunners and studio execs and network execs who all said, 'Yeah, we had to do a little bit more work but our shows got staffed and we're really happy with how they got staffed.
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