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Perhaps, but you'll probably wind up with a shitty movie. Books and movies are fundamentally different media, and a story that works well in a book usually, IM
by midoridensha 3y ago
Perhaps, but you'll probably wind up with a shitty movie. Books and movies are fundamentally different media, and a story that works well in a book usually, IMO, just won't translate well to a 2-4 hour movie without making major changes to the story and plot.
However, perhaps instead of trying to make movies from books, they should make miniseries (3-10 hour-long episodes).
- jredwards 3y agoBecause if there's anything AI currently sucks at, it's giving a reasonable summary of a larger context. I think Book --> Movie Script is probably going to arrive before generated actors.
- midoridensha 3y agoYou're right: the current quality of film/TV scripts is terrible, so this is definitely one place where LLMs could do far, far better than most humans in the profession.
- WalterBright 3y agoLord of the Rings was considered unfilmable for decades. Computers made it possible.
- midoridensha 3y agoI'm not referring to the technical aspects of filming, I'm referring to the huge differences between them as a storytelling medium. A movie only has 1.5-3 hours of screen time available to tell the complete story (unless you do something like the recent "Dune" movies, or make a trilogy like LotR), but in addition to that, a lot of things that work for books don't work the same way for movies: pacing, etc.