Amazon Studios lets everyone in on the screenplay action

Possibly coming to theaters: a movie written by you and everyone else with a computer.

Amazon recently announced the launch of a filmmaking contest called Amazon Studios, with monthly prizes totaling $140,000. Anyone can submit a script. Winning projects will be chosen by a panel of judges, and Warner Bros. gets first look.

Here's the unusual part: Anyone can change or revise your script. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Call it the Wikipediazation of moviemaking. "We believe that feedback from a large number of people will be a helpful indicator of what is working and what is not," according to Amazon.

Professional screenwriters, on their own websites, are expressing horror. "A ridiculous misapplication of new thinking," wrote Craig Mazin ("The Hangover Part II").

"I've never met a single screenwriter who hoped anonymous strangers would revise him," wrote John August ("Big Fish").

And Michael Ferris ("Terminator Salvation") compared the process to "a pack of dirty kindergartners sticking their grubby little ravenous fingers into the beautiful pie we just baked."

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Amazon's idea isn't totally new: Hollywood has long used test audiences to change movies, sometimes radically. John Hughes' original ending for "Pretty in Pink" is a famous example: Early viewers refused to accept Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer as a couple.

But Amazon's test audience is, theoretically, everyone. That raises some questions: Do fans have the best ideas? Do people want to see a movie made by consensus? And does Hollywood really need a better way to find the lowest common denominator?

Submit your ideas at studios.amazon.com.