Over 1,000 Hollywood heavy-hitters blast Paramount's WB takeover in fiery open letter

'These factors threaten the sustainability of the entire creative community' When Warner Bros. Discovery announced the intention to sell itself to the highest bidder, Hollywood was sent into a rightful tizzy. To quote Alien vs. Predator: “Whoever wins, we lose.” Netflix? Paramount Skydance? It wasn’t so much a fear of which studio could not wield the DC comic book movie playbook or own the rights to The Wizard of Oz, so much as a fear of consolidation. Folding a major studio into another is ultimately a labor issue and a move that puts fewer people at the top deciding what is culturally relevant. Over a turbulent 2026, Netflix fell out as a frontrunner for acquiring Warner Bros. as Paramount Skydance (itself freshly acquired by billionaire mogul David Ellison) offered a competitive bid that left WBD stakeholders with seemingly no other choice. But the creative community that makes our movies and TV shows believe there is another choice: the United States taking legal action against the merger. In an open letter on Monday, 1,034 directors, producers, actors, and other industry players derided Paramount’s attempt to acquire Warner Bros. and called on anyone in power to do something a