So you don’t want the whole system to collapse.” And then everyone will go, ‘Well, maybe I’ll write video games, maybe I’ll make TikToks at home and become an influencer.’ It’s a lot of creative people who can do other things. If the ecosystem of writers doesn’t exist, no one will learn how to do it. “We’re like Twitter’s employees, that if they want to save money, they just get rid of 80 percent of the workforce,” he said.
“We’re not in the middle of anything other than writing.”Īpatow says the studios and streamers aren’t treating writers as essential parts for their end games. “That aspect of it complicates everything that we’re trying to do,” Apatow continued. While Apatow doesn’t currently have any projects in production directly impacted by the strike, he shares that the standstill “affects everything because we’re in development on a lot of things so you just have to stop… Then as soon as the strike ends, everybody says, ‘Oh, now we have a backlog, we don’t need anything.’” “So that’s what’s scary about it is that there is a solution but I’m not sure that all of the business interests are interested in getting to it quickly.” When these things conclude, you never go, ‘I understand why it took that long.’ It’s never something so inventive, and groundbreaking, that you think, ‘Oh, people needed to go to war for months over it.’ It’s always a very obvious position,” Apatow said. “I always think that whatever happens, they could have figured it out already.
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