“If I have to check in creatively with others for a story... that would probably be the end of me telling TV stories,” 'Yellowstone' creator Taylor Sheridan said about the WGA’s minimum staffing demands.
that he broadly supports the WGA strike, the showrunner also said he disapproves of the guild’s minimum staffing demands, which includes a “minimum staff of six writers, including four Writer-Producers,” forby himself, those demands don’t fit the way he prefers to run his shows.. “If they tell me, ‘You’re going to have to write a check for $540,000 to four people to sit in a room that you never have to meet,’ then that’s between the studio and the guild.
He added: “When I quit acting, I decided that I am going to tell my stories my way, period. If you don’t want me to tell them, fine. Give them back and I’ll find someone who does—or I won’t, and then I’ll read them in some freaking dinner theater. But I won’t compromise. There is no compromising.”with experienced television writers, many of whom have taken to Twitter to decry Sheridan’s “lone wolf” TV-making approach.
“Famous, powerful, privileged showrunner throwing other writers and the Guild under the bus in the middle of the strike is a plot twist I absolutely saw coming,”
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