Director Joe Carnahan Speaks About The Hollywood Strike

For weeks I’ve been going on about a potential strike in Hollywood, but so far I’ve not had any concrete proof that anything will actually happen. Many film sites and workers in Hollywood are adamant that it will and are preparing for it like it’s the end of the world. Surely the studios should be trying to make peace with the unions, not preparing for the worst?

Finally, a Hollywood director has stepped up and commented on the strike. Smokin Aces directors Joe Carnahan has spoken honestly about the strike. Carnahan starts a 50 day production on White Jazz sometime soon, with plans to follow that up with Killing Pablo in June 2008. He thinks it’s possible, saying,

“…and I don’t think that’s going to happen. I think the WGA is going to go out in another two weeks and it’s gonna be so ugly and potentially protracted that it’s gong to scare off SAG and the DGA and they’re going to come to an agreement before the June 30th drop dead date. I really think this is where it’s headed.

I’ve talked to friends of mine, writers and directors and agents and everybody has this bunker mentality…this strike is happening and people are going to be destroyed overnight. Careers are going to be crushed and an industry torpedoed. The respective parties as so far apart right now, the notion that in two weeks, there will be this miraculous stick save and all will be resolved, is insane…”

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