Is it worth it to try to get into the film business? What say you, /tv/?

Also, /swg/, what are you working on?

>Is it worth it to try to get into the film business?
No, let AI do its work

>>213076302 (OP)
The film business is dying

the more you verbalise it the less likely it is to happen. stfu and get on with it

It is near impossible to be just, a writer guy who writes a script good enough for a studio to notice in current year but it absolutely happens. Challengers is a good example, Severance too for TV shows. You need an agent though. Gone are the days of mailing a script in and having someone read it.

>>213076312
Oh, so you want it to die?
>>213076326
Based on what?
>>213076337
>the more you verbalise it the less likely it is to happen. stfu and get on with it
Apparently I'm not good enough because I "plagiarize" people and things.

>>213076366
I would have to cold query an Agent or Manager, right?

You can make a whole movie with AI now

>>213076406
Then make one, tell me how it turns out.

I spent a really long time researching writing and story structure and screenwriting process just to conclude 'No.' its not in fact worth it. Writing a sellable script is an extremely demanding mental task that most sensible people cant do without becoming emotionally involved and wanting to create some kind of work of art that expresses your inner being and feelings, yet paradoxically the better and more intimate you make the story/script the less sellable it is because the people buying it want something extremely cookie cutter and borderline AI generated or something simple with a strong hook and twist like "Get Out" or "Severence" but it has to be wrtitten in a pre approved style not a creative and unique way youd want to do it, like severance for example is written in J.J Abrams mystery box style, I highly doubt the writer personally wanted to use that storytelling formula he just knew it would sell. And if you even manage to sell something and its not borderline AI generated slop then it will be altered into that and the final product wont be what you wanted it to be at all, it will be deformed and uglified.

So if you think you can do the highly mentally tasking duty of writing something 'good' without getting personally attatched and putting much of yourself in it then yes but in my experience its not worth it and you have to depersonalize and homogenize so much its not worth it in the end, only to then have a 10-20% chance of it even selling. There are some gifted writers who can do all this and im not one of them, i think they are a rare breed, if you look at interviews youll see they are usually inherently a hollywood type business minded thinker and writer both, those kind of people are rare in my opinion.

>>213076434
I will

>>213076302 (OP)
If you really want to tell stories, trying to write scripts is probably the single worst way you can go about it. You're entirely reliant on some retarded executives to decide if your work is good enough to make over Marvelslop #172. There are a lot better ways to publish stories if you care about that, and a lot better ways to make money if you care about that.

>>213076438
>And if you even manage to sell something and its not borderline AI generated slop then it will be altered into that and the final product wont be what you wanted it to be at all, it will be deformed and uglified
I have things I want to sell and things I want to shoot, those things stay separate.
>>213076460
Novelists have managers/agents as well, the ones who come up indie are rare.

>>213076516
Do it if you think you fit the description of the kind of person who is business minded and skilled at writing im just telling you its a very rare kind of person but if you fit the bill good on you