Emmett

Low-budget action movie producer Randall Emmett recently unveiled a high-profile collaboration with Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese to bring the story of a deadly 1982 avalanche near Lake Tahoe to the big screen.

The project, “Wall of White,” is being produced and financed by Emmett’s production firm, Convergence Entertainment Group, according to Hollywood trade site Deadline.

The guild cited Emmett’s failure to pay writers for work on past projects.

Since 2020, Emmett has been on the guild’s “strike 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 WGA said in the email, adding that guild rules “prohibit members from working for or selling literary material to companies or individuals who are on the Strike/Unfair List.”