1923 Season 2 Production Delayed Indefinitely in Montana
1923‘s Jake Dutton is going to get a little more time to heal than originally planned.
Production of the Yellowstone prequel’s Season 2 has been delayed indefinitely in Montana as the Writers Guild of America strike continues, NBC Montana reports.
The Paramount+ series shoots in Butte, Mont., and makes use of the city’s Civic Center. Civic Center manager Bill Melvin tells the NBC affiliate that 1923‘s production team let him know that the delay stems from the strike, which began May 2.
TVLine has reached out to Paramount+ for comment.
TV programming has been disrupted since the WGA officially went on strike after talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down despite months of negotiation.
Late-night talk shows went dark the day the strike began. Saturday Night Live cancelled its final three shows of Season 48, which would’ve been hosted by Pete Davidson, Kieran Culkin and Jennifer Coolidge. More recently, Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers announced that production on the Netflix sci-fi drama’s final season was held up amid the strike.
“Writing does not stop when filming begins,” the Stranger Things bosses wrote in a statement at the time. “While we’re excited to start production with our amazing cast and crew, it is not possible during this strike. We hope a fair deal is reached soon so we can all get back to work. Until then — over and out.”
Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Maher miss them please settle this strike soon.
Sound familiar? Wasn’t it Yellowstone that the scripts weren’t ready for the second half of the season? Didn’t they know the strike was coming and could have been ready for this?
That’s not how a strike works. You don’t do more work in advance of a strike. The whole point is to make impact so that your issues are addressed.
Oh some productions def worked hard to get their scripts done ahead of time. But “done” is never really done and it’s hard on a show to not be able to change a word when filming (or even editing.) It hamstrings the rest of the production to work off a finalized script no-one can alter or question the writers about.
It doesn’t feel like the strike is going to accomplish anything other than harming people relying on work in production crews. Writers sure are in the right here but who is there to protect the rights of people who are out of the job right now – editors, designers, set decorators, costume makers, makeup artists, production workers, art departments, assistants, sound mixers, visual effects wizards, stunt actors, camera operators, lighting techs, animators, casting departments…
There are hundreds and hundreds of people working on productions like “1923”, and they get even less recognition in this (and waaaaay less money!) than the writers.
Would be great to shine a light on that too, TV Line.
Most if not all of those employees can be represented by their own industry unions. Independent contractors would likely be the most impacted. But that’s a choice a person makes if they don’t join an organization to represent their rights. Contractors can be in any field you listed as well. But there are unions, guilds (and local organizations as well) such as the Director’s Guild of America & Producer’s Guild of America as well as trade unions for those in other fields like stunt performers, artists, & make up, etc.
But they don’t have the power that writers or directors do, that’s the point.
No one is going to stop production because of the makeup crew going on strike, and there’s no unifying of those artists. If one goes on strike, one thousand will line up to take the job.
Hollywood has boxed out writers and directors who aren’t in the union from getting work, but not other crew positions.
Well, according what I’ve been reading on several sites, the Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild might also be going on strike when their contracts are up at the end of June. So there is that to think about.
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I fully support the writers. The actors receive millions of dollars for performing based on the scripts provided to them. Meanwhile the writers fail to receive an appropriate salary for their contributions.