HoLLMwood: Unleashing the Creativity of Large Language Models in Screenwriting via Role Playing

TL;DR

HoLLMwood is a novel framework that enhances large language models' creativity in screenwriting by role-playing different characters and roles, leading to more coherent and engaging scripts.

Contribution

The paper introduces HoLLMwood, a role-playing based framework that enables LLMs to collaboratively generate and refine screenplays, significantly improving quality over existing methods.

Findings

Outperforms baselines in coherence and relevance

Produces more interesting and high-quality screenplays

Effectively utilizes role-playing to simulate creative collaboration

Abstract

Generative AI has demonstrated unprecedented creativity in the field of computer vision, yet such phenomena have not been observed in natural language processing. In particular, large language models (LLMs) can hardly produce written works at the level of human experts due to the extremely high complexity of literature writing. In this paper, we present HoLLMwood, an automated framework for unleashing the creativity of LLMs and exploring their potential in screenwriting, which is a highly demanding task. Mimicking the human creative process, we assign LLMs to different roles involved in the real-world scenario. In addition to the common practice of treating LLMs as ${Writer}$, we also apply LLMs as ${Editor}$, who is responsible for providing feedback and revision advice to ${Writer}$. Besides, to enrich the characters and deepen the plots, we introduce a role-playing mechanism and adopt LLMs as ${Actors}$ that can communicate and interact with each other. Evaluations on automatically generated screenplays show that HoLLMwood substantially outperforms strong baselines in terms of coherence, relevance, interestingness and overall quality.