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Inside the writers' resistance
As the writers' strike shuts down Hollywood, Empire heads to the picket lines to find out what they're fighting for.

AT 12:01AM ON 2 MAY, a sound rang out across Hollywood: the thud of 11,000 film and TV writers slamming their laptops shut in unison, refusing to work until studios and streaming platforms agree to more favourable working conditions.

"It's about extinction. It's about survival," Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray tells Empire, three weeks into a strike that has shut down movies and shows such as Blade and Stranger Things, and brought into question the release dates of many of next year's most anticipated series and blockbusters. Not since the last writers' strike in 2007 - which lasted 100 days and threw everything from Quantum Of Solace to Lost into havoc - has Hollywood found itself embroiled in a civil war as disruptive or bitter.

WRITER'S STRIKE © 2023 Barbara Gibson for Empire Magazine JULY 2023

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