“[I]t sure feels like we are being attacked simply because we are a big fat juicy target – not for any wrong doing. We haven’t even been greenlit yet! It feels as if we have a large Aussie cousin kicking sand in our eyes…or to put it another way, opportunists exploiting our film for their own political gain.“
Out of the frying pan, into the fire: Still reeling from MGM’s dismal cashflow situation and the departure of Guillermo del Toro, The Hobbit now faces another threat from — according to Peter Jackson, at least —an Australian actor’s union muscling in on Kiwi turf, and potentially sending the Land of Middle-Earth over to Eastern Europe.
The link above is PJ’s account of where things stand. I understand he’s management in this instance, but, speaking as someone who’s very pro-union in general but has had issues with some specific organizing tactics in the past, his summary sounds eminently plausible to me.
Yes… I completely agree…
This whole thing reminds me of that “Flight of the Conchords” episode where they go to the Australian consulate party… Although I completely agree with PJ on this one (his letter could almost be a primer of my beef with Organized Labor as a whole), the frustrated, near-impotent anger that seethes from the letter seems completely typical the little-brother complex the Kiwis seem to have with respect to the Aussies.