Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 10 o Akuhata 2007, i kii a Reznor ka kawea e raatau te kaupapa ki nga whatunga pouaka whakaata i roto i te ngana ki te whakarite i tetahi kirimana: "Kei te tata matou ki te tuku ki te whatunga, no reira e rua wiki te tawhiti mai i te tutaki ki nga taangata nui katoa, a ka kite tatou he aha te mea ka tupu. " Mai i te wā i whakapuaki tuatahi ai ia i ana mahere mō tētahi raupapa pouaka whakaata, ka puhoi te ahunga whakamua, e ai ki ngā pūrongo, nā te kaha o te mahi a te kaitākaro.
2007<unk>2008 Writer's Guild strike, engari i haere tonu. ko te kohinga iti, i huaina ko "Year Zero", i te whanaketanga me HBO me BBC Worldwide Productions, me te tuhinga me te tuhinga i tuhia e Reznor me te kaituhi "Carnivàle" a Daniel Knauf.