2023 Writers Strike: What Movies and Shows Will Be Affected?

Additionally, Netflix has opened up a formidable international content pipeline as evidenced by its recent commitment to invest $2.5 billion on South Korean programming over the next four years. Netflix would undoubtedly prefer a healthy geographic diversity of content on its stream but regardless of how long the writers strike continues, it’s homepage won’t be barren anytime soon.

MOVIES

Movies Currently in Production

While television is undoubtedly the most immediately and visibly affected by a strike—we hope you don’t mind probably going a few months without late night talk shows!–film productions can also subtly be influenced by a writers strike, even if it’s already in production. As we noted on certain above entries like House of the Dragon, many Hollywood productions like to keep at least one writer on set in case a scene isn’t working or perhaps an actor wants to try something different. At the very least, dialogue is often being punched up regularly on the type of blockbusters and genre fare mainstream audiences adore.

During the last writer’s strike, for example, the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace went into production with what star Daniel Craig later called “the barebones of a script.” Craig and director Marc Forster, neither of whom are WGA writers, found themselves essentially having to rewrite scenes amongst themselves. Michael Bay experienced a similar strangeness on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

While we cannot speak with any certainty on if films currently in production will be immediately impacted by the WGA strike, it seems like a fair possibility. Marvel films, for example, are famous for rewriting scenes and plot scenarios all the way into post-production. And currently, Captain America: New World Order is filming in Atlanta with stars Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford. On the non-Marvel scene, Sony’s Bad Boys 4, which stars a returning Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, is also shooting in Atlanta.

Sony is likewise currently filming an untitled Ghostbusters 4 with Paul Rudd and the rest of the returning cast of Ghostbusters: Afterlife in New York City, with a December 20 release date on the horizon. Meanwhile Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien sequel is also filming in Europe, as is Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake.

It is again unclear if the writers’ strike will immediately affect one or any of these projects, particularly those that have been in development for years (looking at you, Nosferatu). Time will tell. The movies currently prepping to be filmed this summer, on the other hand may be facing some tougher choices…