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…
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.
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
It's the most psychotic method to finding movies. Now that the backrooms has worked, Hollywood execs can put it in their pitch deck for the next reddit inspired movie.
It's the same reason why we've only got superhero movies for two decades, even beyond Marvel. You can only make new IPs if the reason for producing the IP is that it's similar enough to an existing one. Which kind of kills the whole idea of fresh ideas.
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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homes@piefed.world · 93 pts · 66d
Hollywood will do anything to avoid actually paying writers to come up with original ideas.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 38 pts · 66d
AI didn't work, time to scrape reddit manually for royalty free ideas.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 66d
Which will probably also be AI generated content
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 66d
Heh.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 66d
God forbid they take a risk on a story they like that isn’t already a best seller
homes@piefed.world · 20 pts · 66d
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
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 66d
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.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d
As long as people keep paying for Marvel 26 and other crap it's their own fault.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 65d
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
Donkter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d
It's the most psychotic method to finding movies. Now that the backrooms has worked, Hollywood execs can put it in their pitch deck for the next reddit inspired movie.
It's the same reason why we've only got superhero movies for two decades, even beyond Marvel. You can only make new IPs if the reason for producing the IP is that it's similar enough to an existing one. Which kind of kills the whole idea of fresh ideas.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 66d
SCP movie incoming.
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 66d
I think that's impossible to monetize due to the licensing rights or something of the SCP wiki
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 66d
See things like Control that are blatantly SCP inspired but don’t use the name
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 66d
And "There is no anti-memetics division", which is just a sanitized version of qntm's original story on the wiki.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 66d
True, but that can be worked out as well.
MinFapper@startrek.website · 1 pts · 65d
What is SCP?
Summzashi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d
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.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 66d
Greentext short film compilation incoming
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 66d
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.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 37 pts · 66d
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.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 66d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 17 pts · 66d
Home Alone remake but Kevin is still Mcauley Caulkin as an adult and nobody seems to notice he's a grown man.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 65d
Just remake the first movie with as much of the original cast as you can.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 12 pts · 66d
13igTyme@piefed.social · 3 pts · 66d
The princess would be Ms piggy and Kermit would be the dread pirate Roberts/Westly
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 2 pts · 65d
You are absolutely right! I just thought as-you-wish/an-ni-mal/i-love-you would be a funny gag.
Sweetums is the giant for sure.
Is Rizzo right for Vizini, or should he be human?
And for Inigo, Gonzo? He’s got the arms for fun rapier work; I think we saw some is treasure island. Inigo Gonzales?
The six fingered man is probably a token human.
The prince could be human too, or maybe Fozzy.
Miracle max… Pepe the prawn? There is probably a better fit out there.
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…
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 65d
Honestly, if they had a real person who could pass as Andre the Giant he should be the token human in the cast
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 65d
I just talked about that a couple days ago
misk@piefed.social · 22 pts · 66d
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.
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d
We're gonna get broke arms and coconut movie and be glad that's all they did.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 66d
Suicide - coming soon
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 66d
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!!
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 66d
/r/writingprompts: The Movie
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 66d
Dear hollywood please please please go to /r/badmovieideas
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 66d
There's still hope for a Darth Binks movie yet!
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 66d
Still waiting on Rome, Sweet Rome.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 65d
This sounds like a live-action version of "GATE: and so the JWST Fought"
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 66d
Eww, gross. Run to the artists, not a platform, instead.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d
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?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 65d
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
Bonus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 66d
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.
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d
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.