As the first week of the writers’ strike of this 2023 is closing, we are already knowing howWhich of the most powerful series are being affected the most… and which ones apparently not. This is the case of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, whose season 2 has been filming for several months and his plan is to finish production no matter what.
And for this, from Amazon Studios they are going to have to do without the staff of scriptwriters. Let us remember that, as a consequence of the strike (and the WGA rules themselves) nor the showrunners of the series (JD Payne and Patrick McKay) nor any other writer, are allowed to do any work that involves the script… including creative decisions on set.
Instead it seems that the production will trust the producers “non-writing” executives (Lindsey Weber, for example) or different directors of this season (Charlotte Brändström, Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper) for these three weeks of shooting (about 19 days) that would remain to finish season 2.
a planned plan
This It was already planned, yes, by Payne and McKay themselves who, anticipating the possibility of this strike, made various arrangements for the filming to go ahead. Let’s remember that a showrunner in a series is the one through which each and every one of the creative and artistic decisions of a series go through, a job that includes supervising the “dailies” and editing the episodes.
In this sense, the fact that they only have a few days of filming left makes it easier That, for example, HBO with season 2 of ‘The House of the Dragon’ that goes with the idea of moving forward and not stopping despite having been in production for less than a month.
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