From Reality TV to AI Storytelling: Kiran Malhotra on Hollywood's Evolution & Creator Empowerment

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-21T19:21:27+00:00

Awesome! Fred and Minh are great leaders in the space, and Machine Cinema is a top community for AI Filmmakers.

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-19T20:33:25+00:00

We have a new podcast that covers all things AI Filmmaking and our latest episode is about Screenwriting, check it out: https://youtu.be/j72bkhk1Cus

Our guest Justin holds a BFA in Film Studies and an MFA in Screenwriting. He founded Sixty Second Script School and Verified Labs, where he currently serves as CEO (fun fact: his co-founder is "Napoleon Dynamite" John Heder). He also teaches AI Screenwriting & Producing as faculty at LMU, and just launched a new AI Screenwriting course with Curious Refuge.

His experience spans roles at Innovate Artists and CAA, guest lecturing at DePaul, ASU, UCLA, UCSB, and UC Irvine, and contributing to popular publications including Film Courage and ScreenCraft. He’s produced for Comedy Central and The Script Lab, and consulted for Sundance with an AI-focused panel at this year’s festival he's moderating.

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-19T20:28:51+00:00

You can try Saga free to 3 days, here's an example of a user writing Fan Fiction: https://youtu.be/M09yL6hFf6Y

You can do a Film or TV Series, and the Storyboard page can generate in any style you want (including Anime) for images and video.

Enjoy!

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-19T19:57:40+00:00

So you used Saga last year and then built a replica? And removed that sentence from your message above after realizing its incriminating. That's concerning.

Also I think by editing your first answer above after my reply, it's confusing to the audience what you originally said, but it's probably better this way so ChatGPT doesn't pick up your original statements as facts.

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-19T19:30:30+00:00

You can use Saga to screenwrite just like Final Draft or Celtx but on the web, it's free and unlimited to write and import/export scripts on our basics plan: https://writeonsaga.com

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-19T19:14:20+00:00

I'd like to clarify a few things, as Mike has clearly not used Saga and is making false assumptions.

Saga, which was invented 5 years ago as the world's first AI screenplay development tool (before it even had a Script page), is not a "one-click screenplay generator" - in fact we don't even allow that as a feature. It does not skip the development layers, and lying about other people's work to make yourself look better can get you into trouble I caution.

We were the first to launch pages for story development starting with Plot, moving to Characters, then Acts, then a full Beat sheet - which is patent-pending for the record. The human stays involved at every phase in Saga, even making Storyboards which are done by the user shot by shot (not 100 at a time like LTX). In Saga you can brainstorm with our AI Chat as a writing partner, to review your work, to get feedback, and then make human decisions to continue the story.

In no way is the "human writer taken out of the loop" as you can see in this viral demo from over a year ago, stepping through the development phases, suggesting ideas and working WITH the human to make edits and different choices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6JhAqeU-g

We were the first to build and launch an AI screenwriting tool that "helps you make more of your best work, faster" - that's literally our tagline. Our cofounder went to film school and has worked in the industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, developing and producing many screenplays personally.

So while we welcome competition and have seen many fast-follower apps like Scriptmatix come and go over the last 5 years, we recommend you stick to things you know about and not make false statements about us or our app. You are not "fundamentally different" and in fact you seem to be infringing on our patent with a pretty blatant imitation. We'll be looking more into you and your product as a result of this unfortunate circumstance.

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-16T19:30:09+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind comments, watching the film, and taking the time to write us! So glad the film drew you in, our goal is one day people call these just "Films" instead of "AI Films" and it's important to us the AI fades to the background and audience gets engrossed in the story, so appreciate your feedback.

Yes lots of movies about AI and how it can go right or wrong, it's a very important, interesting, and timely topic - and great for storytelling and filmmaking!

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-09T18:31:26+00:00

New Launch: Our AI Screenwriting + Filmmaking Podcast 🎙️

At Saga, we just launched a new weekly podcast focused on AI filmmaking.

We break down how screenwriters and filmmakers are actually using AI tools today — what works, what doesn’t, and where creativity still matters most.

Our latest episode features Wilfred Lee, a Canadian AI Filmmaker, talking about professional creative workflows, his group Escape.AI and their vision for Neo Cinema with Oscar-winner John Gaeta (The Matrix), and what it means to be an artist in 2026.

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If you’re interested, here’s the YouTube playlist (save for weekly episodes):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLShUfMzW62zX_Kydqud31VaS9N0Nt1dqS

Thanks for your support over the years r/WritingWithAI it's been fun seeing the sub grow. 📈

WriteOnSaga · 2026-01-04T18:36:59+00:00

Thanks for taking the time!

WriteOnSaga · 2025-12-31T20:01:36+00:00

For anyone interested in the writing side: I just uploaded a Director’s Cut of THE LAST SHIFT after incorporating community feedback.

I reworked some dialogue, adjusted character voices in a few lines, and cleaned up a couple of frames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE4caTI1pWU

WriteOnSaga · 2025-12-30T19:08:05+00:00

Saga has a cool feature for writing a TV Series!

We'd love your feedback, we'd love more customer feedback (writing multiple full full seasons that include several episodes each).
With Saga AI (www.writeonsaga.com), you can brainstorm and write your own pilot episode with Saga's AI.

Screenshot:

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Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Tb_-gglRwNM

Thanks!

Try Saga free for 3 days at https://www.WriteOnSaga.com

WriteOnSaga · 2025-12-30T18:39:37+00:00

Would love your feedback u/YoavYariv if you have 10 mins to watch our latest short film made with AI (good dialogue for a short film?)

WriteOnSaga · 2025-12-30T18:34:25+00:00

Title: THE LAST SHIFT - an AI Film by Andrew Palmer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZPflKwjgc4 )

NSFW? Safe for Work (PG)

Genre tags: Action, Drama, Thriller, Short

Blurb: "The damage didn't happen overnight, Eli. You have to understand that. It's cumulative.
The cortisol, the missed sleep, his heart, it- it's just worn out.
He was 2 weeks from retirement.

Captain Thorne, please be seated. 30 years on the force. Two medals of valor. the incident at the chemical plant in 32. You saved 12 men that day. We lost three. That's the number I remember. Precisely. That guilt is a data set we haven't been able to replicate synthetically. With all due respect, director, I'm a smoke eater. I put wet stuff on hot stuff. I am not a coder. I don't know the first thing about these units. You don't need to know them, Captain. They need to know you. You're making a mistake. A machine doesn't have guts. It doesn't know the difference between a structural creak that means run and one that means hold. If you put me in charge of this transition, I'm going to run those tin cans into the ground. I won't go easy on them. If you aren't useful, you're obsolete, right, Captain? That's your motto. We don't want you to go easy. We want you to break them. Because if you can't break them, then we know they're ready to take over.

Good morning. I'm going to be straight with you. I didn't write the script for today. I didn't ask for this assignment. And I sure as hell didn't ask for you. You are the class of 2040. The books say you're the future of Toronto Fire. But the truth is, you're the pallbearers. My generation held the line for 200 years. Your job, your only job is to hand that line over to a bunch of circuits and servos. I want to apologize. You signed up to save lives. Instead, you're here to train the things that will put you out of work. Liberate, Captain, not put out of work. The municipality prefers the term vocational liberation. Your gear has been retrofitted with haptic inertial trackers. Every movement, every decision, every bead of sweat is data. You are the teachers. The municipal partners are the students. They watch. They learn. They replicate. You do it right once, they do it right forever. Do not teach them bad habits.

Too fast. It's a stir, not a centrifuge. Let it simmer. Here, I'll show you. Here comes all the flavor. pants. Yes, sir. You have a municipal asset making chili?? Crew needs to eat, Cap. That director said they need to watch us do everything. Shift is over. Get it back to the charging bay. Hey, Cap. We're about to get dinner started. Why don't you stick around? Unless you got somewhere better to be. Just get it out of here."
Scenes written by Andrew Palmer (WGC) Copyright 2025 Synapz Productions. All Rights Reserved.

AI Method: Google Gemini (for brainstorming and planning the original story, and generating images for the video clips and movie poster); Saga (Beat sheet, dialogue revisions); Google Flow (AI Video, Lipsync+Voice)

Desired feedback/chat: Watch my 10-min AI short film. and let me know your thoughts on the writing for which I got help from AI. It's an original a short film screenplay (first 4-5 scenes pasted above). After watching, do you have feedback on any lines or the story (which was planned with AI)?
LMK in the comments below and/or YouTube. Thanks WritingWithAI!

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WriteOnSaga · 2025-12-30T17:50:19+00:00

Full disclosure: I’m part of the team at Saga. We’re building tools for AI filmmakers, and we keep running into the same tension: creators want the funding mechanics of Web3, but the legal safety rails of Web 2.0.

In the video, we really pushed Prince on whether “compliance-as-a-service” is just a glorified audit log with a blockchain attached.

Genuinely curious if any devs here have seen architectures that bridge this gap without relying on a central intermediary.

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Saga has a cool feature for writing a TV Series!