AI isn’t Hollywood’s first script doctor, but it may be its last

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Hollywood, in other words, has always run on invisible labor. The screen may suggest singular genius. But behind every auteur is a crowd: collaborators, consultants, fixers, ghosts. Writers who never got the rewrite fee. Editors who salvaged a broken second act. Designers whose mood boards made the pitch deck sing.

Cinema is a collaborative art form. It always has been. But the myth of the lone genius — the one voice and the one vision — sells better. It flatters the director. It simplifies the awards campaign. It is a story the industry tells about itself.

And now that story has a new character. Not a ghostwriter. Not a blacklisted screenwriter. Something even quieter.

AI.

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