BeatBandit

Lots of new AI models updated for BeatBandit - Latest Claude 4.6: Opus, Sonnet and Haiku - Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash - Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.5 (great value for money) - GPT 5.2 Covering pretty well all the best AI models for creative writing eqbench.com/creative_writi…

BeatBandit now supports Nano Banana 2 - create great quality reference images for every single shot in your story - 3 credits (0.03 dollars) per generation - run a split stack and get 4, 6 or 9 consistent images in one go depending on what your shot calls for. Pretty neat! Generations automatically use available reference images for characters, environments, and objects, so the images are also consistent between shots. @BeatBanditAI

Latest @BeatBanditAI update POLISH WIZARD You can now use BeatBandit to polish your screenplay - once the big picture is correct and you want to hone the details Target to fix dialogue, pacing, action lines, character intent... or use Smart Analysis to let BeatBandit look for the biggest improvements.

Starting 2026 with a bang; BeatBandit now allows you to create images of your entire story (with consistent characters + environments) - for all the shots in all the scenes, automatically I've basically implemented @henrydaubrez 's "Split Stack" method as well as a 3x3 grid method + automatically splitting the results into images, so you can get 4 or 9 consistent images for each shot But even better, since BB allows generating recurring character images, and it automatically tags the characters to each other, you'll have the same recurring characters appear throughout the story! So basically if you need this - consistent frames for image-to-video generation for a longer story, created and split automatically, read on

Introducing the latest & greatest BeatBandit feature: You can now plan an entire season of TV! Serialized format spanning an entire season, with multiple storylines that weave together to form episodes. BB will help you to plan the season starting from high level all the way to each act of each episode. When your plans are ready, you can kick off each episode into a separate project and write the screenplays! 🧵 See how this craziness all works

Make a trailer out of any script Trying out the Trailer Wizard in BeatBandit again. I loaded in one TV pilot script I wrote some years ago ("Bermuda Triangle"), used BeatBandit to import it in, analyse the story, and have it automatically make a trailer ouf of your story. here's how🧵

The Beaver Movie trailer @BeatBanditAI now has "Trailer Wizard" - any story you have inside BeatBandit, you can ask BB to come up with a trailer for it! BB will analyze your story, define the script for the the trailer, and write the the shot list. You can then paste the shots to your favourite video gen tool, Sora 2 in this case. Obviously still a bit rough around the edges (first version and all that) but made me chuckle anyway. This example video made in 15 minutes.

Introducing one of most requested new features for @BeatBanditAI You can now import in existing screenplays and fully analyze them with BeatBandit! Whichever screenplay you have (upload your own, or analyze a famous script) BB will break down the script into story beats, write out the scene list, explain how each scene breaks down to individual beats + reverse maps how scenes implement the overall story beats + then places the screenplay into an editor view,, with each scene linked back to its story beats! 🧵See what it can do - case Forrest Gump as an example.

Watch "Miami Heat, Episode 2" How I made an Duanji style microdrama episode in 90 minutes and how 2026 will be the year of AI-generated fictional storytelling 🧵

Biggest update to BeatBandit @BeatBanditAI - now you can not only plan screenplays but to edit them! Featuring a brand new Screenplay Editor built from scratch - workt like Final Draft. Use BeatBandit to outline your story, then use the wizard to turn the outline into a screenplay, and use the Editor to edit. It does what you would expect: automatically formats into correct styles etc. Best of all, it does what your current editor does not do - the editor seamlessly integrates with the story beats - see the beats for each scene right next to the screenplay you're writing!

The Screenplay Editor is added by default to all new projects. To make the Screenplay Editor appear in your existing projects, select "Refresh Project" from the project menu!

Best of all, it is fully integrated with the scene list of your story - you can see all the story beats you have specified to each scene right alongside the screenplay you're writing!

Introducing the biggest update to BeatBandit so far: FULL SCREENPLAY EDITOR Yes, you can now actually not just outline stories, but write and edit screenplays right within BeatBandit! Works similar to your favourite screenplay editor.

I just created a 105 page feature length screenplay - a "James Bond reboot" spec script - in 3 hours - from scratch to full screenplay Using @BeatBanditAI + @cursor_ai GPT-5 🧵 See how + read finished screenplay

You can now bring in your existing movie scripts into BeatBandit! BeatBandit is great for writing new scripts, but you can equally use to analyze and improve your existing scripts (or bring in classic scripts and study them in detail). 🧵Here's how to do it

You can now turn your @BeatBanditAI made screenplays into VEO 3 -compatible shot lists automatically! Enter your story, turn it into a screenplay, turn your screenplay into a shot list - take the shots into Veo 3 (or other video) production tool and turn your story into a video. BeatBandit analyses the screenplay, plans out the shots, making sure they're all cinematic, implement the screenplay fully, and the shot-to-shot edit overall makes sense. Each shot is described comprehensively, easy for you to copy paste the shots into your favourite AI video tool for production. Perhaps the best part: All recurring elements are automatically created as tags, and described separately in the shot list, making it easy for you to edit the descriptions, and then ensuring shot-to-shot coherence - the tagged items are automatically expanded when you copy paste (or export) the shot list! (It's pretty cool!) Shot Lists are now live on BeatBandit! Give them a go.

Biggest user request - BeatBandit now supports Micro-drama (Duanju / ReelShort style) Write a full season (50 episodes) of mobile-optimized soap melodrama in hours Season arc story beats, episode list, screenplays for each episode (!) with @BeatBanditAI 🧵See how

Read sequence 1 for "The Arctic" that I wrote by using @BeatBanditAI (all modules) + manual polish in about 1 hour. This is 98% written by AI. I've been continuing to tweak writing style guidance. Starting to be pretty happy with the results. 🧵Link to the full 14 pages

Introducing Micro-Stories - the most requested new feature for @BeatBanditAI Write dozens episodes for a micro series from a single story premise! Think the 60 second Instagram/Tiktok video. Input your basic idea. Watch as BeatBandit refines it, using professional screenwriting techniques, making the idea rich enough so it now supports creating dozens on episodes around it. And, it then plans the episodes, then writes the scripts! (If you want!) It's all pretty wild. 🧵Check the thread to see what you can do with BeatBandit