HBO fires David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, at a critical moment in the Hollywood writers’ strike

The lack of agreement between the American writers union and the studies is generating unexpected commotions in high offices. Proof of this is the Unexpected firing of David Simon from HBOthe screenwriter who has been associated with the brand for 25 years and for which he has created some of the best series in history.

“The day HBO called me to suspend my contract after 25 years of writing television for them, I was doing what I had to do.“The screenwriter has published on his networks along with a video in which he is seen participating in the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Born in 1960 in Washington DC, Simon began his journalism career at the Baltimore Sun, where he worked as a crime and political reporter for more than a decade. It was there that he began to develop his interest in Baltimore culture and society, something that permeated his later work.

In 1991, he published a book titled “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets,” which became the basis for the popular NBC series “Homicide,” which ran from 1993 to 1999. A year later, “The Corner” premiered. miniseries for HBO in which he describes the life of a middle-class family in Baltimore, plunged into misery by heroin addiction.

The evaluations were so positive that it did not take long for him to devote himself to what would be his masterpiece and, In 2002, the essential ‘The Wire’ came to our screens, again focusing on Baltimore from the point of view of drug trafficking, police corruption and the decline of the city’s industry.

Its five seasons made history and, although the audience never finished accompanying the title as its legend would make believe, without a doubt It became one of the best series on HBO..

Already become an essential of the chain at the height of David Chase, Simon continued to collect applause thanks to the miniseries ‘Generation Kill’ (2008), the misadventures of a battalion of marines in the Iraq war, and the brilliant ‘Treme’ (2010), focused on the resurgence of life (and music) in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast.

Always under the shelter of HBO, Simon continued delivering quality titles to the brand such as ‘Show Me a Hero’ (2015), ‘The Deuce’ (2017), ‘The Plot Against America’ (2020) and ‘The City Is Ours’ (2022)his most recent work.

Digital platforms such as HBO Max now have the strength that the television networks exerted in previous negotiations, those carried out during the famous break in 2007, and the writers argue that part of the growth of these platforms is due to the content they develop. At the moment, the Netflix series delayed by the writers’ strike are already a few…