Cut! Can Directors Save Hollywood?

Jonathan Handel, a digital media attorney and former associate counsel at the Writers Guild of America opines that the fate of Hollywood might (and should) fall on the shoulders of the Directors Guild of America, which began labor negotiations on Saturday.

“The directors have to insist on a deal that the writers and actors can live with, even to the point of threatening a strike of their own. That’s a tough script to follow: It’s hard to negotiate on someone else’s behalf, and strikes are alien to the directors (they’ve only walked out once in seven decades, and that was for just five minutes).

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