'Mini rooms are abominations, and the refusal of the AMPTP to pay writers to stay with their shows through production — as part of the JOB, for which they need to be paid, not as a tourist — is not only wrong, it is incredibly short-sighted.'
George R.R. Martin wrote another impassioned blog post about the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, doubling down on his support for the Guild while honing in on what he believes is the strike’s most pressing issue: mini rooms.
Martin, best known for penning the “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels and serving as a writer and co-executive producer on HBO’s hit adaptation “Game of Thrones,” first entered Hollywood as a writer on “The Twilight Zone” and the 1987 “Beauty and the Beast” television series. He argues that the mentorship and experience he gained while working on the production of “The Twilight Zone” was invaluable, and he is worried that today’s up-and-coming writers are not allowed the same access.
Martin then goes into more depth, explaining: “The way it works now, a show gets put in development, the showrunner assembles a ‘mini room,’ made up of a couple of senior writers and a couple newcomers, they meet for a month or two, beat out the season, break down the episodes, go off and write scripts, reassemble, get notes, give notes, rewrite, rinse and repeat… and finally turn [in] the scripts. [The] show is greenlit and sent into production.
Martin mentions that while, in negotiations, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers offered thethe chance for some writers to be brought onto sets to “shadow” showrunners and producers, “Even that will not be an absolute right. Maybe they will be let in, maybe not. These are the people who wrote the stories being filmed, who created the characters, who wrote the words the actors are saying.
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