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  • The Wattpad writing platform is full of novels whose incredible popularity is stirring up covetousness in Hollywood, according to our partner DNA.

  • To "sort it out", producers can count on artificial intelligence with algorithms capable of identifying the most promising stories.

  • A novel read more than 146 million times on Wattpad has already been the subject of a film adaptation.

There are no more photos: to find the best scripts for children's literature, it's on Wattpad that it happens, and Hollywood has understood it.

The platform, which brings together a community of 90 million readers and amateur writers, "is fast becoming a source of intellectual property of choice for producers of films and series," commented the media

Quartz

on February 27.

"Turnkey" audience successes

She's With Me

, one of the most popular stories of the platform created in 2006, illustrates the phenomenon, increasingly industrialized by the studios.

Already published as a book and currently adapted as a series by Sony Pictures, this teenage novel published in 2018 by Jessica Cunsolo, has already been read more than 146 million times on Wattpad.

It brings together all the star ingredients of a “binger” love triangle.

The international success "She's with me" on the desktop version of the Wattpad platform (screenshot)

A young woman, Amelia Collins, recently arrived in a new high school ... A fussy bad boy, Aiden Parker, determined to show him all the colors ... And then a rival, Kaitlyn, who does not see very well eye the game that settles between our two protagonists.

Spice up the scenario?

A mysterious stranger, who has promised to move heaven and earth to find Amelia and kill her ...

Stories like this, Wattpad is full of them.

So to sort them efficiently and select the next Hollywood hits, artificial intelligence is a tool of choice, reports

Quartz

.

With its machine learning tool StoryDNA, the company is indeed able to digitize all the stories on the platform and identify the most promising in terms of audience, genre and even sentence and vocabulary structures.

Goal ?

Understand the combination of elements that determine their success.

The next Netflix hit will be collaborative

On the platform, Jessica Cunsolo's novel is not the only one to have sold its rights to production studios.

"Among the dozens of Wattpad stories that have become Hollywood hits include the hugely popular Netflix film series

The Kissing Booth

,

Hulu's

supernatural thriller

Light as a Feather

and the independent film

After,

 " the outlet noted.

Note that some projects are also closely conducted with Wattpad readers, a way to fully involve them in the adaptation of their favorite stories.

Last week, Mogul Productions, a crowdfunding platform for films

via

blockchain, also announced its launch and its desire to bring fans into the black box of audiovisual creation.

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In another register, the phenomenon is reminiscent of the collaborative musical fictions which are assembled on TikTok.

At the beginning of January, the musical

Ratatouille

, edited from scratch by users of the social network, made its virtual premiere on Broadway.

For the creative industries, it is the promise of ever more collaborative fictions where fans are more integrated into the creative process.

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The original article was written by Margaux Dussert and published on the L'ADN website.

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