CHATGPT IN HOLLYWOOD: HOW AI IS TRANSFORMING SCREENWRITING AND FILMMAKING

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by Jim Allen on February 9, 2025

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In a world where technology and Hollywood collide, it seems that we’ve found a transformation that’s occurring within this industry. We have seen ChatGPT take Hollywood by storm, and today we want to discuss how this technology is changing screenwriting and filmmaking as a whole. 

The most notable impact that ChatGPT has had on Hollywood is in screenwriting. Traditionally speaking we would see people take months if not years to create a draft of a script. Not only would it take that long to make the script but then they would have to make edits and revisions based on the other people involved in this movie. 

ChatGPT may not replace the screenwriter but it does help you with a tool that can give you suggestions and other tips along the way during your screenwriting process to make this run a bit smoother and thus have less revisions to deal with in the future. 

Another aspect of the Chachi BT helps with in Hollywood is developing story character profiles and other things filmmakers need to do as a means to get their movie ready to film. ChatGPT allows you to create new plot lines that make your film more engaging and coherent to your target audience. You can have ChatGPT help you with new narrative structures or character profiles with ease in less time than it would otherwise take to craft up manually. 

Another thing that AI can help with in the process of screenwriting and filmmaking is that it can identify plot holes or inconsistencies within your script. This is something that the average person may not notice right away until you start recording and your actors or actresses are saying their part. Having AI  as your virtual assistant during the screenwriting and filmmaking process has surely transformed the way Hollywood does filming and how screenwriters create films. 

The influence of artificial intelligence has extended beyond this screenwriting and filmmaking process into the area where it can help with planning and logistics. You can use AI to help you create shooting schedules and analyze the scripts to identify scene requirements much faster than using a human planner for this process. 

While we cannot use AI to replace every portion of Hollywood screenwriting and filmmaking, the parts that it can help with will reduce the cost significantly as it pertains to creating a movie in the upcoming years.  This reduction in cost could go down to everybody else as a savings on tick prices or DVD pricing points so that more people can enjoy the latest films before they become “old” or “outdated” thus sold at a reduced price on clearance.  

ChatGPT’s role in filmmaking and screenwriting doesn’t stop right here. We can see AI revolutionizing how you shoot and edit films. With AI powered software we can see more technology being used in Hollywood than ever before. This technology is capable of automatically selecting the best takes based on parameters that the director’s sets in place regarding their film and it reduces again the time spent on manual manually processing scene edits which reduces the overall cost involved with making a Hollywood film. 

As soon as the filming is completed AI can play a role with marketing and audience interaction. ChatGPT is a pro at creating marketing campaigns that you can implement with ease. As soon as this AI program knows what your target audience is and the general gist of the film  it can start creating marketing campaigns that you edit  to put out to the masses on various paid outlet channels or just social media channels for the film. 

Not only can ChatGPT create your marketing campaign but it will also help you create engaging content that compels your audience to comment, share and express their opinion on the marketing campaign so that you get more exposure organically from your target audience on your next Hollywood film. 

As time continues on we will eventually see AI playing a significant role in screenwriting and filmmaking as Hollywood opens their mind to using this technology to make better films for less money. Well there is some ethical questions on how far we should take AI in the film industry we do see deepfake technology playing a role in Hollywood in the future where perhaps you can’t have the actor you wanted. You could use a deepfake of that actor and while this could bring up some moral questions and the actor may need to give consent as an example,there are ways in which AI can make the filmmaking process cheaper and perhaps more engaging than ever before. 

The end of the day ChatGPT in Hollywood is a thing and AI is starting to transform screenwriting and filmmaking whether we like it or not. Sure there are some ethical concerns and moral discussions to be had about this entire process but the reality is this technology has been let out of the box and Hollywood is utilizing it to their advantage.

photo by Juraj Varga, Pixabay

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