An Open Letter To Studio Executives

Dear All Studio Executives,

First of all, I want to say thank you. Thank you for forcing the writers into strike. You have inadvertently made this country a better place to live because the WGA strike has set off a wave of strikes and attempts to unionize and that will only change this country for the better. Second of all I want to say that you are idiots for not paying your writers. Your entire salary, all that money that you love so much is entirely dependent on the general public loving the content that these writers create. Good luck when SAG joins them, nothing can get produced without writers and without actors. You may have a deal with the DGA but they're going to be out of work too.

So while we’re at it stop rebooting shit. You love money. And as such you run your little numbers trying to figure out what made money before. Ghostbusters, Halloween, Harry Potter. You have determined that the best way to continue to make money is by regurgitating the same shit we’ve already seen. Even when you lose money on those reboots. Everytime you remake something you LOSE money, so why exactly do you keep doing it? Do you happen to know what the definition of insanity is? It goes right along with stupidity. Let writers give us original stories, they have brilliant ideas and we, the audience, the general public that pays you wants to see them. So take your greedy boots off their necks and let them create.

After you do that, we start getting movies that are worth paying $15 for again, then how about we stop employing problematic actors and directors. The industry as it stands now is unsafe. It's unsafe for anyone who isn’t a straight, white, man. And it is entirely your fault, which you know because you are all straight white men. Continuing with Ezra Miller was inexcusable, but by now you know that was a costly mistake. I doubt that will be enough for you to learn though.

Next let's go ahead and stop canceling shit after a single season and then erasing it off your streaming service so that you can avoid paying your writers the way that they deserve. It's sleazy, it's disgusting and it changes history. Historians look at art, in all its forms, from the past as a way to look at what a time periods people believed in, enjoyed and thought necessary to comment on. By erasing shows and movies that you decided didn’t make you enough money you are changing history. You know who else changes history? Communists, Nazi’s…that is the category you are in right now. As you crush the working class writers, crew members, and technicians under the weight of miniscule pay and unbearable working conditions. Let’s be clear…you did nothing to earn the money you have. You are not creative or smart and you’ve contributed nothing to society. Unlike these artists who keep society going. They are the reason so many people want to live, get up in the morning, enjoy their lives. They are what makes life worth living.

Pay your writers. Pay your crew members. Pay your technicians. Pay your artists. And start listening to your audiences.

P.S.

I know this letter is somewhat hostile, but I doubt you have anyone around you willing to tell you that you’re wrong. I believe some people need the stupid shamed out of them, you are some of those people. You might never see this and that’s fine, because other people will and hopefully it will give them the motivation to fight back.