Kevin Surace argues AI is breaking Hollywood's gatekeeping. Over 99% of screenwriters never get their scripts produced by studios. Now, for about $100, a writer can make a full movie independently, bypassing Sony, Universal, and Paramount entirely.
AI just broke Hollywood's gatekeeping system. 99+% of screenwriters never get their stuff published, never turns into a movie. They're writing screenplays, they're submitting them, there's stacks of them at Universal Studios, and they basically never get published. What happens if that screenwriter today goes, for $100, I'll just make my own movie? I don't need Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, or Paramount to make the movie for me. I can make it myself. So we're democratizing access to make the content. This is a positive thing, right? To where the gatekeeper has always been Hollywood, basically. Right. You didn't have a major studio in Hollywood pick up your screenplay and run with it, that was it. Never— it never saw the light of day. And, and there are people I know who have written many a film, and there's, you know, 20 of them sitting on their desk. They spent half their life writing films, and they never got one studio to pick up a single one of their films. Now they could just make all 20 films.
