Two days after Ryan Reynolds’ children visited him on the set of “Deadpool 3,” the film halted production as 160,000 more Hollywood workers represented by SAG-AFTRA joined the writers strike.
Marvel’s latest “Deadpool” film and the newest season of Netflix’s ultra popular “Outer Banks” series are the latest among a slew of movies and TV shows that have halted production as part of Hollywood’s mega-strike.
Just two days after Blake Lively took her three children to visit Ryan Reynolds donning a superhero costume on the “Deadpool 3” set in England, production has ceased.
Variety confirmed on Friday that Reynolds won’t be tapping into his superhuman strength to spar off the bad guys anytime soon.
On Thursday, “Outer Banks” stopped filming its fourth season in Charleston, SC due to the nationwide writers strike, where writers are no longer the only ones picketing against studies, networks and streaming platforms, according to The Post and Courier.
The big studios, meanwhile, are reportedly digging in too. A studio executive told Deadline that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) will “allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”
The studios and the AMPTP — which represents streamers Disney, Netflix, and Amazon, among others — believe that by October, most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work, the outlet reported.
“Not Halloween precisely, but late October, for sure, is the intention,” a top-tier producer close to AMPTP said, according to Deadline.
By that time, studios and streamers believe they’ll be able to close the deal they want as cash-strapped workers will be desperate to begin getting paychecks again.
