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Hollywood will do anything to avoid actually paying writers to come up with original ideas.
AI didn't work, time to scrape reddit manually for royalty free ideas.
Which will probably also be AI generated content
probably
Heh.
God forbid they take a risk on a story they like that isn’t already a best seller
Well, that’s the thing. It’s not like writers don’t have original ideas; i’m certain they have plenty of them. It’s just that the producers are too terrified to take a risk on an original idea (that they have to pay for).
But, apparently, they’re not too afraid to steal original ideas from the Internet. Fucking chickenshit motherfuckers…
Of course, it’s all about the fucking money
It also doesn't help that >90% of content is crap, no matter the medium. It's a risky investment.
That being said, the way to handle those odds is to make a lot of smaller bets and listen to feedback. Once you average everything out, you can get good returns on investment
Writers in general have original ideas, but Hollywood filters them out. Hollywood selects for boot-licking and ass-kissing. Anyone with thoughts of their own washes out early.
Good luck finding anything new of value in the endless ocean of fake LLM engagement, industrial scale astroturfing and outrage farming. I can see Influencer Reacts To Made Up Stories From r/amITheAsshole: The Movie as the best possible outcome.
Greentext short film compilation incoming
SCP movie incoming.
What is SCP?
It's a collaborative writing project that, just like the backrooms, originated in 4chan. It's a wiki about a fictional secret government organization (The SCP foundation) that contains anomalies to protect normalcy.
It has become huge over the years. Definitely check it out if you enjoy scifi and/or (Lovecraftian)horror.
I think that's impossible to monetize due to the licensing rights or something of the SCP wiki
See things like Control that are blatantly SCP inspired but don’t use the name
And "There is no anti-memetics division", which is just a sanitized version of qntm's original story on the wiki.
True, but that can be worked out as well.
/r/writingprompts: The Movie
One Reddit user says “kill yourself.”
Suicide - coming soon
To be completely honest I've seen some not terrible ideas in some comment threads on Reddit over the years.
Some of those couldn't be worse than some of the crap Hollywood has been producing.
I don't believe there's a shortage of new ideas in the industry, writers are creative. Producers however are the actual problem: they're the ones refusing to pony up the money to make anything other that dross.
The Muppets Princess Bride, no doubt.
I just talked about that a couple days ago
Home Alone remake but Kevin is still Mcauley Caulkin as an adult and nobody seems to notice he's a grown man.
Just remake the first movie with as much of the original cast as you can.
Farm boy, fill these with water.
A NI MAL
The princess would be Ms piggy and Kermit would be the dread pirate Roberts/Westly
You are absolutely right! I just thought as-you-wish/an-ni-mal/i-love-you would be a funny gag.
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Sweetums is the giant for sure.
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Is Rizzo right for Vizini, or should he be human?
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And for Inigo, Gonzo? He’s got the arms for fun rapier work; I think we saw some is treasure island. Inigo Gonzales?
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The six fingered man is probably a token human.
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The prince could be human too, or maybe Fozzy.
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Miracle max… Pepe the prawn? There is probably a better fit out there.
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OMG! Bunsen and Beaker working on the life sucking machine!
But How do you safely puppet Sweetums in a holocaust cloak, in a wheelbarrow, on fire… 🤔 There will be no survivors…
Honestly, if they had a real person who could pass as Andre the Giant he should be the token human in the cast
What about AI? Wasn't it the FUTURE of cinema??? Come on! I want more generated garbage on my screens!
Do not go for creative ideas from humans, ugh. Double down on the bet, create 5 different AIs that discuss a new idea among themselves!!
Still waiting on Rome, Sweet Rome.
This sounds like a live-action version of "GATE: and so the JWST Fought"
There's still hope for a Darth Binks movie yet!
Dear hollywood please please please go to /r/badmovieideas
Crazy. If they can drum that up from reddit, I can certainly try to revive my energy to contribute a modicum to the communities I started here.
Eww, gross. Run to the artists, not a platform, instead.
If they can find a way to credit the person behind the account, I've read some good stories and comments on reddit. Why would they not be artists? Because of the media they communicated through?
There's plenty on r/HFY that's good. Would love to see something like Chrysalis as a film
FYI, it's a Reddit link. Sorry, but it's a good story
Tbh I didn't think the movie was that good. I wanted more exploring and a slow drip of horror. Instead they skipped all the parts I would have been interested in. Like Clark exploring and discovering everything instead they just info dumped it all in the kitchen table scene.