A friend of mine got a show picked up by Netflix. There was no money in his budget for a writing staff. “I don’t want to write every script myself,” he said. “I’ve done a lot of tv. Other voices make the show better.” “Oh yeah, totally,” said Netflix. “Here’s what you’ll do: 🧵
“Instead of hiring a staff, just pick some writers and tell them you’re giving them a script. They’ll come in to help break the story and outline-” “But they’re not on staff.” “They’re getting a script fee. Developing the script is now part of that.” “It is?” “It is.”
@krudell Almost every animated show I have worked on ran like this FYI. If you want to know just how bad it can get ask an animation writer. We are already living it.
@krudell "Other voices make the show better." Season 1 of True Detective disagrees. It's truly tragic that the bloated pay of Hollywood writers, far beyond what almost any literary or scholarly writer makes, is threatening to become less bloated than it used to be.
@krudell Chatgpt will have all their jobs by the end of the decade.