Max's ill-advised decision to unite writers and directors' credits accidentally unites writers and directors
, to name a few reasons. However, upon receiving backlash, the company quickly walked the move back. “We agree that the talent behind the content on Max deserve their work to be properly recognized,” a Max spokesperson said in a statement to
. “We will correct the credits, which were altered due to an oversight in the technical transition from HBO Max to Max and we apologize for this mistake.”The Directors Guild of America is currently in negotiations for its own contract with the AMPTP, and has beenfor showing less support for the strike than other guilds. A move like this—even one quickly corrected—illustrates how directors are literally in the same boat as writers in regards to how they’re viewed by the studios.
“For almost 90 years, the Directors Guild has fought fiercely to protect the credit and recognition deserved by Directors and the work they create. Warner Bros. Discovery’s unilateral move, without notice or consultation, to collapse directors, writers, producers, and others into a generic category of ‘creators’ in their new Max rollout while we are in negotiations with them is a grave insult to our members and our union,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter in the statement.
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