Writer-producer David Schulner is hoping that the hard lesson he learned from his mentor, veteran showrunner Shawn Ryan, during the 2007-2008 writers’ strike will inspire his fellow scribes to stand with the WGA in its ongoing battle with Hollywood’s talent agencies. That struggle is now completing its third week since the guild ordered its members to fire their agents en mass who refuse to sign its new Agency Code of Conduct.
Schulner, creator/executive producer of NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam, credits Ryan with showing him what sacrifice and union solidarity meant in those tumultuous early days of the strike.
“Twelve years ago I got my first pilot made,” he wrote in a recent series of tweets, referring to the 2008 Fox supernatural drama pilot The Oaks he’d created. “It starred Jeremy Renner, was directed by Michael Questa, and Shawn Ryan was the showrunner. I won the lottery.
Schulner, creator/executive producer of NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam, credits Ryan with showing him what sacrifice and union solidarity meant in those tumultuous early days of the strike.
“Twelve years ago I got my first pilot made,” he wrote in a recent series of tweets, referring to the 2008 Fox supernatural drama pilot The Oaks he’d created. “It starred Jeremy Renner, was directed by Michael Questa, and Shawn Ryan was the showrunner. I won the lottery.
- 5/3/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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