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Shane Black, Jim Herzfeld and More Top Writers Fight AI With Gauntlet Script Analysis Team (EXCLUSIVE)


Hollywood writers are fighting AI with a new script analysis team called Gauntlet

As Hollywood agencies and production companies increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to evaluate screenplays, a group of writers and creatives have come together to design a so-called barrier against the incursion. Shane Black (“Iron Man 3”), Jim Herzfeld (“Meet the Parents”) and Akela Cooper (“M3GAN”) are among two dozen industryites who collaborated on the development of a new tech platform, dubbed the Gauntlet, in an effort to keep humans assessing screenplays at the gate-keeper stage rather than AI. Ed Solomon (“Men in Black”), Dana Stevens (“The Woman King”) and Jim Uhls (“Fight Club”) were among the writers who helped design the platform that gives screenwriters direct access to Hollywood decision-makers to vet and potentially shop their screenplays.

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