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Oh, I misread your comment, I think. You're talking about the showrunners themselves incorporating ideas from the community, right? That would be great, althou
by blakeross 11y ago
Oh, I misread your comment, I think. You're talking about the showrunners themselves incorporating ideas from the community, right?
That would be great, although unfortunately Hollywood is so concerned about lawsuits that show staffs aren't even allowed to read scripts for their own shows. For example, the Silicon Valley staff isn't allowed to read this script; if I wanted to apply for a job there, I'd have to write a script for a different show and send that in.
- mentos 11y agoYea, are there any examples of a show like SV crowd sourcing content for it? I know that MythBusters has crowd sourced episode ideas: https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/3cfn7r/suggest_a_myth_or_item_to_blow_up_for_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/3cfn7r/suggest... Top comment from Adam Savage: "You guys are submitting great ideas. We should have done this a long time ago! Keep your ideas of things to blow up coming too!" But I don't know of any shows with a narrative doing this? Would love to see SV do the same for 1 episode (they could get really meta with it) Sad to hear there are legal barriers preventing this. I imagine that a simple "sign this release before submitting your work" still leaves room for lawsuits?
- jedberg 11y agoStar Trek TNG accepted unsolicited scripts. Not exactly crowd sourced, but at least they took outside scripts.
- ziedaniel1 11y agoWhat if you released the script under a permissive license? (Contrary to ericjang's suggestion :) ) Would this eliminate the risk of a lawsuit?