'American Horror Story' Continued Filming During The Strike Amid Efforts From WGA Members To Stop Its Production
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While the production of many movies and television series has been shut down since the beginning of the current writer’s strike, some have refused to shut down, to the consternation of Writers Guild members. The twelfth season of the popular horror anthology series, American Horror Story, is among the shows that have remained in production despite the strike. Writers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, and their supporters have been picketing the production in their efforts to shut it down while the strike continues. While the producer and director of the series, Ryan Murphy, is not prohibited from being on set as long as he is not writing, WGA remains concerned about the continued production of the show, which they feel is anathema to their efforts to get studios back to the negotiating table and for everybody to be able to get back to work.
“We’ve shut down a sh*t-ton of shows and that’s why you see us out today,” T Cooper, a WGAE strike captain and, pre-strike, an executive producer on NBC’s hit series The Blacklist, said today. “We’re here at one of the few remaining shows that are being produced still, and how does it feel? It’s like honestly we’re going to be out here as long as it takes to get what we feel is a fair contract to honor our work.”
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The efforts to shut down productions during the strike have been successful in many cases, however, Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story Season 12, subtitled Delicate, has been resistant to such pressure. Some members are upset that major celebrity cast members such as Kim Kardashian, who they feel could significantly aid their cause, are instead, crossing the picket line and continuing to work. Other cast members include Emma Roberts and Matt Czuchry, however, Kardashian has taken the majority of the heat for her continued involvement in the show, which she highlighted in June on social media. Kardashian posted on X that she was on set of American Horror Story discussing the upcoming season, leading to several critical replies and accusations of being a “scab” due to her working on the series while the strike is ongoing.
For Murphy’s part, he previously threatened litigation against Warren Leight, a former WGA Strike Captain and co-chair of the Strike Rules Compliance Committee over Leight’s claims he made on social media, to help drum up support for the strike, that show crewmembers told him that they would be “blackballed in Murphy-land” if they joined the WGA strike. Murphy responded to the Guild that the claims that Leight made in his post were inaccurate and demanded an apology. Leight eventually issued an apology, claiming that he had posted the information on X (formerly known as Twitter) “in the heat of the moment” and subsequently deleted the post. He has remained silent on social media since. Additionally, he was later relieved of his WGAE strike duties due to the initial post and its inaccuracies.
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Source(s): Deadline, Daily Mail, X, People
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