• NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There is nearly a century of Nebula Award winning science fiction that is in the public domain. Hollywood can’t say, “they’re out of ideas” All they need are screenwriters who aren’t idiots.

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      5 months ago

      Or maybe pay the screenwriters to do more than a first draft?

      I also used to wonder why writing in TV shows and movies got so bad in the last decade. A lot of things feel like it’s just a first draft level of quality. Some information came out last year that indicated that they were indeed filming things off of a first draft. Because the studios didn’t want to pay writers beyond making a first draft.

      Hopefully that issue has been resolved. Hooray for unions!