How I accidentally changed the way movies get made | Franklin Leonard | TEDxVeniceBeach

"Female-driven action movies don't work." "Films about black people don't sell overseas." This is what many film-industry professionals, despite their varied personal preferences, long believed to be the hard truths informing what movies should get made. In 2005, speaker Franklin Leonard founded The Black List as a way to bring attention to Hollywood's favorite scripts when removed from the fog of this so-called wisdom. What happened next was amazing. Here, Franklin speaks about the limitations of Hollywood's evaluation of merit and what we lose as a society when we reduce representation in the kinds of stories being told. See blcklst.com/ for more. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@tishcarey]

That was fantastic. Anyone who brings empathy for the underrepresented to the world is changing the world. You’ve done nothing less than shift the future.

[@yeyamusic]

There needs to be a musician/songwriting version of blcklst!!!!

[@BRockBaseballMom4Life]

Mahalia Jean-Pierre funny you say that..I have a nephew that is doing just that!

[@maxdondada]

Mahalia I wholeheartedly agree

[@liamolson6753]

He’s a very good storyteller.

[@ProphetVictory]

The script he describes at the top became 'Geostorm'.

[@TheGreatTimSheridan]

back to the future was turned down 40 times.. then they made the "refrigerator time machiene" into a delorian..

[@theresabowerman]

Franklin is absolutely brilliant

[@kathyliz]

Very Inreresting! Franklin is amazing!😀

[@earfors]

Hope I can be featured one day on this list.

[@BRockBaseballMom4Life]

I hung on every word. Very interesting.

[@saratadesse8048]

💗 Thankyou for your work and your kindness

[@angelrosethediva]

Gourmet Food For Thought!

[@MiguelExhale]

🧘🏾‍♂️🧠👌🏾

[@TheGreatTimSheridan]

i have a system.. we should talk..

[@101RealTalker]

I'm intrigued

[@TheGreatTimSheridan]

@@101RealTalker how so? do you read scripts?

[@101RealTalker]

@@TheGreatTimSheridan I'm intrigued by what could possibly qualify as a new "system"...I am a writer, so yes, I read scripts.

[@dipdo7675]

Franklin Leonard?? Who?? Isn’t he the guy playing the “I’ll make some noise “ gambit to get some “fame” rather than actually doing something ?? He complains about Hollywood nepotism hoping to create a wedge to get him some rather than busting a sweat!!