WGA Issues ‘Do Not Work’ Order Against Randall Emmett, Martin Scorsese-Produced Film ‘Wall of White’
The Writers Guild of America West has released an advisory to members ordering them to not work on “Wall of White,” a true-story disaster film project from producers Randall Emmett and Martin Scorsese, due to Emmett’s inclusion on the union’s strike/unfair list.
“Emmett has a long history of refusing to honor obligations to writers and the Guild has filed numerous arbitration claims against companies owned by Emmett over the last decade,” the guild said in the advisory.
“Wall of White” is set to be adapted from a 2010 book of the same name by Jennifer Woodlief and the 2021 Netflix documentary “Buried,” both of which recount a deadly avalanche at Lake Tahoe in 1982 that killed seven people. A rescue team was able to rescue an eighth person who was buried in the snow for five days.
Emmett was first added to the strike list in 2020 after he and his longtime business partner,...
“Emmett has a long history of refusing to honor obligations to writers and the Guild has filed numerous arbitration claims against companies owned by Emmett over the last decade,” the guild said in the advisory.
“Wall of White” is set to be adapted from a 2010 book of the same name by Jennifer Woodlief and the 2021 Netflix documentary “Buried,” both of which recount a deadly avalanche at Lake Tahoe in 1982 that killed seven people. A rescue team was able to rescue an eighth person who was buried in the snow for five days.
Emmett was first added to the strike list in 2020 after he and his longtime business partner,...
- 4/16/2025
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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