Futurama’ Writer Battles for Writers’ Futures
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When Patric Verrone went to work as a nonunion writer on the animated television series “Futurama” in 1998, he helped lead a drive to win guild representation for writers from all four of Twentieth Century Fox’s prime-time animated shows: “The Simpsons,” “Futurama,” “Family Guy” and “King of the Hill.” Nearly a decade later, the 48-year-old Mr. Verrone is the head of the guild — and on the brink of leading his union’s film and TV writers into their first strike since 1988. Mr. Verrone is president of the Writers Guild of America West, which, along with the WGA . Source : online.wsj.com |