Do Female Driven Action Movies Really Work?

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I think that the difficulty in the frustration is that the industry, you know, people are running scare at all times. I mean, i can say concretely, having worked in the business now for coming up on 18 years, it is a joy to be able to work with them. People don't have a problem seeing diverse actors on screen or seeing diverse stories. What they want more than anything is for those movies to be good and what's the black list, i hope, has done is created more of a true meritocracy,. where the focus is not who's in the movie, what's the movie about?

Do you think Hollywood needs to change? How about your own industry? It’s difficult to get decision makers to step outside of the tried and true and attempt something new. Franklin Leonard is Founder and CEO of The Black List-- a company that elevates great screenplays and the writers who create them. In this episode, he discusses how he shifted the way Hollywood works and how anyone can catalyze change if they start by questioning whether the conventional wisdom is all convention and no wisdom. More than 400 scripts from the annual Black List survey have been produced as feature films, earning 250 Academy Award nominations and 50 wins, including four of the last ten Best Pictures and ten of the last twenty-two screenwriting Oscars. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman