Almost every script out of Hollywood these days is a mediocre regurgitation of old material.
LLMs likely would do a better job at combining old material in fresh ways.
I'm all for that.
Rest assured that the reason H'wood is hell-bent on regurgitating old material has nothing to do with screenwriters, and everything to do with the risk-mitigation imperative of everyone between me, the creator, and you, the viewer; producer, director, actor, studio exec, marketer, distributor – all of those have a veto – directly or indirectly – on every word I put on paper.
prompt = f"Write a script similar to {old_material}
but in {new_setting}, making sure that
it meets {studio_criteria}, maximizing
the probability of box-office success."
first_draft = LLM(prompt)Honestly I'd be worried once these people figure out how to edit your work without your talent. Is there a place HNers can contact you btw?
And yeah that's a no-go inside this system thanks in large part to the WGA. A lot of my work is defending, justifying, and otherwise 'handling' feedback from people who think they know better. Sometimes they do, too – it's a collaborative effort to be sure.