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Feedback from a TV Development Executive from Warner Bros.Studios who read and offered notes on my TV pilot script said, "I want you to know that I think your proposed series and pilot are very good; outstanding actually - obviously, you are a very talented writer. To take such a complicated concept and pull it together almost seamlessly is an art and you have, by in large, nailed it." This endorsement became a negative inclusion with my submission. Second note: Due to poor quality from a reviewer at The Blacklist, I dropped my work from The Blacklist. Writer's thoughts for your consideration.
Wonderful stuff, instrumental. All of it is good, but I loved that starting around an hour and thirty minutes there was a focus on good writing (tips and advice) and some common errors writers make (all supportive, not snarky or adversarial). I'll definitely watch that section again. Thanks!
Serious question: If these men are so great, why are their films rated so poorly. Re Infinite: "On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 17% of 83 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 4.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "An initially intriguing sci-fi thriller that quickly veers into incoherence, Infinite is as inane as it is inconsequential."[31] According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 28 out of 100 based on 27 critics, the film received "generally unfavorable reviews".[32] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film 1.5/4 stars and wrote: "Heading straight to streaming platform Paramount+ without the embarrassment of appearing in theaters first, the movie is both blissfully incoherent and weirdly generic, as if it had been assembled from the spare parts of other movies and glued together with stuntwork."[33] From The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney said: "Infinite is a soulless grind. Juiced up with a succession of CG-enhanced accelerated chases and fight action interspersed with numbing bursts of high-concept geek speak, Antoine Fuqua's sci-fi thriller isn't helped by a lead performance from Mark Wahlberg at his most inexpressive."
Great conversation. Guy's got the right approach to all of his software: it has to actually help, and be invisible to the user. As for the threat of AI, no generative AI, certainly now and likely for the foreseeable future, can create a screenplay or film on its own. They rely completely on humans for their initial input and all of their iterations. In other words, they are a tool, or could be seen as a collaborator. The quality of an AI-generated script completely depends on the storytelling and writing capabilities of the human prompting it. A thousand screenplays generated by a thousand people using AI will generally skew along the same bell curve in quality as a thousand people not using AI. Other writers are still the primary competition, whether they're using AI or not.
Barbie and Oppenheimer take all the IMAX screens that's why and the film had only 60 day window without the big expensive IMAX screens not like top gun Maverick had 120 day in IMAX screens and made 1.4 billion dollars just bad lack and marketing imo the next one will make money part 2 coming in 2025.
Shannan, I enjoyed your input and you seem like a pleasant person. But please don't eat on camera. It's VERY rude and doesn't bode well for your degree of professionalism. If you must eat, just turn off your camera. Not hating. Just some constructive advice. God bless.
"Just because you make or write a movie about something significant doesn't make your movie significant. The execution needs to be there and it needs to be in your own voice for people to feel the story. It could be about cancer, depression, love, job struggles, family, politics, saving lives, or even some significant experience or memory of yours, but you still need to do the work to help your audience feel it. Otherwise all they'll come away feeling is that it was a poor attempt at something good without feeling the good." - my quote because why not [Basically I just very much agree with Chris's views]
Very inspiring, hardcore knowledge re getting our vision out there. Especially now, as the WGA and my union, SAG-AFTRA, are in the existential fight of our professional lives. Make your movie!! 🖤
Kudos to both moderator Ramesh Santanam and his guest, lit manager Zach Cox, for a terrifically informative interview. Great questions, thoughtful responses. I appreciated hearing not only helpful info, but also the rationale behind it. Thanks so much.
47:31 I was waiting for this moment, thanks for being brutally honest! And I liked how you guys got out of the tricky question! I wished you spoke more about ChatGPT and others, like Google’s Bard, for instance. Such an interesting topic when it comes to creating in general. I had a chance to deal with the term “transhuman” in college, and for me, AI is just another tool that helps people create stuff. But are we all really unique and creative as we think we are? AI will “steal” the jobs from people who are copycats anyway, which is a brutal, but a necessary thing to do: divide people into ones with a unique voice and the ones with a bit less unique voice. Only the strongest - or in this case, the most creative ones - will survive. So let’s get our popcorn, the show’s about to begin. And whatever the outcome, it’s what we deserve as a human kind. At least, that’s my opinion. It was great listening to you all, thanks so much for such a pleasant afternoon!
I know no one asked for my opinion, but it somehow slipped away. Because it’s so damn interesting, this topic! And please, Chris, do ask your future guests the same question and discuss the future of writing with AI tools further. I would love to hear different POVs from different writing professionals!
@@tijabestija Maybe we'll do a whole session about AI. To be honest, it doesn't intrigue me all that much. However. I use ChatGPT. It's great for loglines. Writers have no more excuse for bad loglines. Writers merely have to enter a brief synopsis of their screenplay and ask the AI for a short logline. And it will create one. It might only be a rough version, which you can tweak, but it will help get you on track. :)
Can't wait til you interview the 2023 winners. Are you going to interview your pitchfest contest finalists? Did you add any of them as clients? How are they doing? Keeping you guys busy or are you getting ready to hit the picket lines in solidarity? What is that New Yorkers plans with strike looming? Does the whole agency hit the picket line in solidarity or do you send them overseas to work where they technically are not on strike?
I need written story into script..It was my life in Seattle Scene with my friends few all dead Rockstar now. Helping them get signed to drug life, like Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, just to name few.. few more.. and many more still living.. saving Pearl Jam.. later . I just don't have to writing script skills.. stacks of notes. I have a Diamond 🔹 in the ruff nuff said. " PRODUCERS "
Feel free to use this in your description for the second half of time stamps: 47:55 - Go make movies 55:31 - Turn a pitch meeting on its head 57:24 - Edge of Tomorrow 58:56 - Work on your projects while giving others value 1:01:15 - Dry spell after The Way of The Gun 1:02:13 - True success 1:12:12 - What do you love about filmmaking? 1:15:32 - What would you do if you couldn't write/direct? 1:16:27 - How did you fall into screenwriting? 1:24:01 - How to become a Screenwriter 1:28:00 - Attitude is everything 1:31:46 - Q1 - Pressure & budget 1:36:15 - Q2 - Star Wars: Rogue One 1:39:59 - Q3 - WW II Movie "The Last Mission" & why pitch meetings are BS 1:43:58 - Q4 - Lenses & Cameras: The Million Dollar Question! 1:51:52 - Q5 - Deal breakers 1:55:10 - Q6 - Music, experience, exposition, and emotion 1:59:04 - Q7 - How do you process notes? 2:03:10 - Rebecca Ferguson's shoes & character 2:04:15 - Q8 - Should writers write for budget? 2:04:56 - Q9 - How do you define voice? 2:06:52 - Outro
I had to come back and comment - this interview is beyond amazing. So so SO many pearls Chris drops that I keep thinking of. This video deserves 10 million views. I hope you can get him back for another interview, and even ask about his book. Thanks again!
