Terrence Howard Movie Shoot Hit With IATSE Strike

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Crew members began picketing on Wednesday after the production didn’t agree to negotiate an IATSE contract, says one union-side source.

By Katie Kilkenny

May 29, 2025 3:25pm

Crew members working on an upcoming Terrence Howard film called Cipher are on strike against the production as they attempt to secure a union contract.

Behind-the-scenes workers on the project, which is filming in and outside Louisville, Kentucky, began picketing on Wednesday after the production allegedly ignored a request to voluntarily recognize IATSE as the workers’ bargaining representative. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to several of Cipher’s producers for comment.

According to a union-side source, crew members sought a union contract in large part so their work on the production could contribute to the qualifying days required to access IATSE benefits. The source alleges that some production has continued since the strike broke out with a skeleton crew as the project seeks replacement workers to fill out what was once a roughly 35- to 40-person crew, depending on the day.

The picket line has formed in front of the location where production set up base camp and crew parking.


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Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/iatse-strikes-kentucky-set-terrence-howard-film-1236233163/

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1. His trip to repulsive Joe Rogan was an exercise is psychopathy

He's obviously surrounded by yes men and yes women From an Independent article:

[Wiz Imp]

2. Terrence Howard is quite literally insane.

On top of that, he's just a gigantic asshole. He really should be locked up.

[Polybius]

3. I remember an interview with him insisting that 1x1 doesn't equal 1

He was saying that mathematicians over centuries have gotten it wrong, and it changes everything. He really believes it, it's crazy.

[Wiz Imp]

4. He insists 1 x 1 equals 2. But that is just the tip of his crazy iceberg.

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For example, he doesn't believe in gravity as a fundamental force.

Here's some actual quotes from him - I would steer clear of anyone who can listen to this stuff and think this guy is anything other than insane.

“I’ve spent 37 years pretending to be people so that people can pretend to watch and enjoy what I’m doing, when I’ve made some discoveries in my own personal life with the science that, you know, Pythagoras was searching for,” Howard explained.

“I was able to open up the flower of life properly and find the real wave conjugations that we’ve been looking for for 10,000 years. Why would I continue, you know, walking on water for tips, when I’ve got an entire generation to teach a whole new world?” he continued.

“All energy in the universe is expressed in motion. All motion is expressed in waves. All waves are curved. So where does the straight lines come from to make the platonic solids? There are no straight lines. So when I took the flower of life and opened it properly, I found whole new wave conjugations that expose the in-between spaces. It’s the thing that holds us all together.”

Howard then claimed that he was going to “prove that gravity is only an effect” and “not a force.” “I’m putting something on YouTube where I will build the planet Saturn without gravity and build the Milky Way galaxy without gravity,” he concluded.

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6. He's lucky he hit it big in his profession

because otherwise he sounds like the average mentally ill homeless person in the streets of a big city.

[LudwigPastorius]

5. That motherfucker makes Bob Kennedy look like Aristotle.