SAG-AFTRA Issues Do Not Work Order on Pandemic Thriller ‘Songbird’ – Variety

SAG-AFTRA has suggested suggested its contributors to refuse work on the pandemic thriller “Songbird,” produced by Michael Bay.

“Songbird” had been provided in mid-May presumably presumably as a low-funds manufacturing that would possibly perhaps per chance well shoot in Los Angeles. The performers union provided the “produce no longer work” teach on Thursday for manufacturing firm On A Lark Productions LLC. It acknowledged the firm had did not full the signatory direction of and is therefore no longer signed to any appropriate SAG-AFTRA settlement. SAG-AFTRA warned contributors that they’ll be disciplined if they work on “Songbird.”

“As such, SAG-AFTRA contributors are hereby suggested to withhold any acting products and providers or carry out any lined work for this manufacturing till extra seek for from the union,” SAG-AFTRA acknowledged. “Please narrate, accepting employment or rendering products and providers on ‘Songbird; will most certainly be regarded as a violation of World Rule One. Violating this teach can lead to disciplinary action basically basically based fully on the SAG-AFTRA Constitution.”

A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson moreover acknowledged, “The producers delight in no longer been clear about their safety protocols and that’s one thing we obviously select very seriously. Also, as accepted in the Enact No longer Work teach, the producers delight in no longer yet change into signatory to our settlement. We produce no longer delight in any extra observation.”

Per a broadcast document, “Songbird” is a shut to-future memoir produced by Bay with Adam Goodman’s Invisible Narratives and Catchlight Studios. Adam Mason is directing from a script he wrote with Simon Boyes. The story is made up our minds two years in a future wherein the pandemic has no longer gone away because the virus continues to mutate. ICM Partners and Endeavor were teaming to promote “Songbird” at final month’s Digital Cannes Market.

The producers didn’t straight away acknowledge to a put aside a query to for observation referring to the SAG-AFTRA announcement.