MAIN STAGEFriday 28 August12:00–12:45Talks

JOSEPH CAMPBELL IS DEAD. OR IS HE?

How Generative AI Is Changing Screenwriting

The hero's journey has held screenplays together for decades, and now a model can write a hundred versions of it in minutes. This panel asks what survives of that structure once it stops being a craft you have to learn and becomes something you get with a click. Three writers and makers working with generative AI say where the model genuinely helps the writing, where it starts producing polished emptiness, and what in a screenplay still has to be done by a person.

What it covers

• Does the hero's journey survive a model that can write a hundred versions of it
• What a screenwriter still does that a prompt cannot
• Three people who write for a living and use these tools daily