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GOST
The saddest thought you can have as a kid is realizing Casper the Friendly Ghost was once a boy who died.
Maybe he was lonely.
When I lived in Los Angeles, my oldest daughter was born in Santa Monica.
I was pitching scripts at the time, so I had time to stay home with her.
A lot.
And babies like to sleep.
A lot.
Which gave me time to write.
And work.
I wrote a lot of scripts, a ton of treatments and practiced my 30 second elevator hooks on the off chance I was ever in proximity to a producer who needed hooking.
In retrospect, I should have been a pimp.
I might have made more money and would have had a lot more contact with producers.
And actors.
And directors.
Funny how perspective can give you a 20/20 view.
Especially when it comes to what one should have done.
Like keeping all my Apple Stock.
Or never buying into the Start Up stock bubble.
One of the stories I did do has been floating in a digital file for years.
I thought about it the other day and it’s been haunting me.
Gost.
The poster would be a kid’s drawing of a ghost with the title in red crayon.
The premise was a young dad gets killed in an accident but before he can move on, he wants to make sure his daughter and wife are safe and well.
So he goes home. The little girl is the only one who can see him, but she stops telling people because it makes mom cry. And Dad hangs out to help out, until Mom meets another man who makes her happy and he can move on to the next thing.
If you saw GHOST, then you know the concept.
Just for kids.
And moms, I guess.
And maybe young dads who are afraid they won’t do a good enough job.
Now what got me thinking about it the other day is a post I wrote on LinkedIn about using AI to create movies.
If I had this twenty years ago, I would have made a movie or two a year.
All based on ideas I’ve had or written.
And using text to video to capture shots, which are composed into movies.
Which GOST would make a good one, I think.
Maybe a one about a pimp pimping hooks to Hollywood.
That one would have to have a very Quentin Tarrantino-esque vibe, I think.
I heard a director lamenting AI in filmmaking, even though his last film was almost all CGI.
If you don’t like irony, you’re SOL.
I think actors would embrace it.
Imagine licensing your face/image and being the star of a movie without having to be on set.
I think directors who haven’t been discovered WILL embrace it, and film festivals and theaters will have AI created films screening next year.
It will be Mainstream in five years.
A theater owner with digital projectors would have the option of different programming for different nights, something they do now with big Texas Instrument Projectors.
But imagine custom films for different audiences.
All the uproar over Disney diversity and blind casting classics can go by the wayside as viewers can go see the version of their choice.
And the same will happen to TV and happen to Books, and happen to Music.
AI will change the landscape of possibility.
Miss Tom Petty?
An enterprising producer can rehash and build a brand new album with brand new music.
A good technician can create an AI hologram that goes on tour with the band to give fans an experience.
Wish Heath Ledger could reprise his role as The Joker?
Write the right prompt, and he can.
And he can fight Keaton or Affleck or whichever version of The Batman you like.
Will it be abused?
Yep.
X-rated Taylor Swift fakes already proved it.
But the genie is out of the bottle and while you can bitch about it, that doesn’t cork it.
Better to figure out how to be good with it, good at it.
Like making a kid’s movie called Gost, and publishing the book to go along with it.
Then maybe working on The Marshal of Magic – I Dream of Genie book I’ve outlined and just waiting on time.
Man, what a terrifying time.
Isn’t it delicious.
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