grizzletoad1
Triple Ace
Registration Date: 08-21-2013
Posts: 249
Location: New Jersey
|
|
As many of you here already know, I have written and continue to rewrite a novel where the main female character loses her shoe and remains that way throughout the story. There is a lot more to that story, though, if anyone has ever read my earlier version of the novel. It's still available on Amazon, warts and all. I've been struggling to get an updated and improved version of the novel out that I call my Author's Edition for some years now, but it has been exceedingly difficult due to family and health issues plus other everyday mini disasters and obligations that pull me away from the keyboard. But I am continuing my work albeit slowly.
But this past month, I've become distracted by an experiment that has now blossomed into something bigger. I put a chapter through Chat GTP and asked it to regenerate it as a film screenplay. While what the program gave me back was not entirely what I wanted, after some tweaking on my part, it came out great. So I continued. I have about a third of my novel (essentially most of what I've updated to date) converted to a screenplay. It is awesome. Exactly how I envisioned this story to be when it first popped into my head so many years ago. BUT, its too damned long! Screenplays run 1 page per minute, and most films are only 100-110 minutes long, so my screenplay has to be 100 to 110 pages. But mine is over 140 pages! And like I said it only covers about a third of my novel. Making very serious cuts to the opening sequence brought the screenplay down to 90 pages, but again that's only the first third of the novel. So what do I do?
Obviously, this novel cannot be made into a theatrical film and still make any sense. Too much has to be cut out from it. The next obvious idea was to make it into a streaming service miniseries, but what would be the catch for a novel that for lack of a better word has not sold all that well. But with such drastic improvements in AI, how would it be if this novel were to come to life as the first completely AI generated film, made with no real actors or actresses, just their AI renders of my characters and their voices all artificially produced to make this miniseries possible? That would be the hook, although Hollywood might not like it owing to the recent strike they had where one of their issues was AI replacing actors. But I have the story. I created the characters in it and the world they are performing in. It's my story, but no one will ever see it because I'm not connected to anyone with any juice in Hollywood. And I will never agree to some director with no skin in the story taking charge of it and reshaping it into "his vision." That's always where great stories wind up as crummy films.
But is this possible? Can it be done? I mean it would need the highest form of AI to make so that the characters look like real actors and move as such, not like they do on the video games my sons love to play where the characters all seem to drift and float in slow motion with odd actions. AI is going to be the future of so many things. In less than 5 years it's gone from pure sci fi to a real sometimes threatening thing. What do many of you think? Wouldn't you all love to see Laura here come to life, dealing with the loss of her shoe while struggling to survive an ordeal she accidently wound up in, with only The Railroad Man able to help her through? Your thoughts, my friends?
grizzletoad1 has attached this image (reduced version):
|
|