A Knight's Tale director Brian Helgeland says Netflix's algorithm shot down a Heath Ledger-less sequel pitch
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be successful. That is to say, according to A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland , Netflix shot down his pitch for a sequel because its algorithm said so.
The distinction, however, is that Bajaria was speaking about the creation of shows and films, not the decision to greenlight them. Certainly, data collected by Netflix’s algorithms influence whether its television series get renewed. But Netflix’s Technology Blog also laid out exactly how its engineers “ content decision makers with machine learning.” The 2020 blog post sketches out how the engineers test the viability of certain ideas and which factors are weighted in the algorithm.
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