The on-going WGA strikeis proceed to have wide - reaching ramifications even just a week after it began — but as more and more creatives publiclycome out in supportof written material stave take up for live wages and job protection in an industriousness attempt to automatise their work , the more some are have to harness the tough dubiousness of what encounter to display that keep on production in the meantime .
Ina lengthy mail service on his personal site Not a Blogreleased over the weekend , George R.R. Martin — who of course on top of being a novelist is also a phallus of the WGA for his screenwriting work , and therefore also on strike — went late on his support for his fellow writers , as well as to , of class , prompt masses that this does not affectThe Winds of Winterin any way imaginable . But he also took the opportunity to discuss the multiple adaptation of his piece of work that are in various stage of product at the moment , including House of the Dragon season two , which has been the focus of ire forits announce intentto keep shoot without author on set .
As Martin himself explained , the strike means that no changes can be made to scripts as of May 1 — no line change , no re - spell to oblige an doer ’s performance estimate or production logistics on the day of motion-picture photography , no nothing . This is a full of life element of the authorship process even well after scripts are “ locked ” and part of the reasonableness why shows like House of the Dragon orAndorcontinuing production during the smasher has proven controversial to audiences in the last workweek . But in spite of that , Martin insists that House of the Dragon will be fine .
George R. R. Martin attends the FYC special screening for HBO Max’s House Of The Dragon at DGA Theater Complex on 14 April 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Jon Kopaloff (Getty Images)
“ Across the ocean , the second season of House of the Dragon started film April 11 and will continue in London and Wales . The scripts for the eight s2 episodes were all finished month ago , long before the ten-strike get down , ” Martin wrote . “ Every sequence has gone through four or five draft and legion one shot of revisions , to address HBO note , my notes , budget fear , etc . There will be no further rewrite . The writer have done their jobs ; the rest is in the hand of the directors , shape and crew … and of course the dragons . ”
This does n’t modify some of the business around the grandness of have writers on set during take already constitute , but Martin is not exactly excuse this to fight the studios that are not live with the WGA ’s demand , either .
“ I have been through several of these [ hit ] since I first started compose for television and film in 1986 . The 1988 strike , the first I was a part of , hold out 22 workweek , the longest in Hollywood story , ” Martin added . “ The 2007 - 2008 strike , the most recent , die for 100 twenty-four hours . This one may go longer . The issues are more important , and I have never seen the Guild so united as it is now . ”
The author also noted that the work stoppage is being supported by other productions adapting his work . The recently announcedHedge Knight : Knight of the Seven Kingdomsseries , adapting hisDunk and Egg novellas , has paused its writers room for the continuance of the strike , while the future of the adaptation of Wild Cards , which has been passed on by Peacock , will now be determine after the smasher is over .
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