Chris Keyser added in a pointed speech that lasted over 17 minutes that when it comes to the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA negotiations, 'there is no winner or loser. It’s just a deal.'
He added, “If you want instead to invest in something that will reap you fortunes, I have a tip. And if you are visionaries, envision a solution, not a stalemate. Because this isn’t a war we’re in, it’s a negotiation. It’s just a negotiation. There is no face-saving here for either side because there is no winner or loser. It’s just a deal. And when you come to remember that again, we will be here, as we have been here all along.
Earlier in the video, the union leader played up the fierce competition between the companies that comprise the AMPTP. “As they face the future, their interests and business models could not be more different, from Disney to Sony to Netflix to Amazon,” Keyser said. “We root for their success, all of them. They root for each other’s failure.”
Keyser — known among writers for particularly rousing speeches during the 2023 strike — described the studios as being in “what increasingly seems like a mutual suicide pact,” given that amid simultaneous writers’ and performers’ strikes, “the 2023-24 broadcast season and the 2024-25 movie schedule and its streaming shows disappear, melt away, week by week.”
Pointedly, he said that “either together or separately, as their divergent interests might suggest, they [Hollywood companies] will come back to us,” suggesting that members of the AMPTP might break off and form their own deals with the union. Keyser also cited Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’
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