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    Posted: 23 Feb 2025 at 7:06pm
Hello, I have a script breakdown for my assignment this weekend, but I want to check around before I go ahead and write away.

Have original works here been adapted from well-known literature (i.e. Greek myths, Brothers Grimm fairy tales, Shakespeare's plays, etc.) and still gotten moved up? I feel really good about my story idea but I wonder if it's worth the gamble.

Please let me know, thanks!
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If you check the FAQs you can use previously created characters by you or someone else.

You can’t use pre-existing storylines.

So Batman would be OK as would Romeo - just don’t copy the Dark Knight.

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Originally posted by jacksilver jacksilver wrote:

If you check the FAQs you can use previously created characters by you or someone else.

You can’t use pre-existing storylines.

So Batman would be OK as would Romeo - just don’t copy the Dark Knight.


Thank you for pointing me towards that clause. I read the part about using previously created characters before but overlooked the part on previously created storylines. My idea isn't directly a previously created storyline but rather the aftermath of one, and in a completely different setting. Of course, I wouldn't want to risk that much, so I will go back to the storyboard and re-visualize this thoroughly.

Thanks again!
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I think technically if you did “After The Dark Knight Rises” or “Rosalind After Romeo” you’d be OK .. but also I don’t know how well this would do. 

You’d hope people wouldn’t have a bias - but you never know.
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Originally posted by jacksilver jacksilver wrote:

I think technically if you did “After The Dark Knight Rises” or “Rosalind After Romeo” you’d be OK .. but also I don’t know how well this would do. 

You’d hope people wouldn’t have a bias - but you never know.

Exactly this!
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