Scripts that don’t adhere to one or more principles of the Mythosis Code

• Low Relevance: Adapting 1 or 2 universal quests limits appeal to a wider audience.
• Character Inconsistency: Characters mirroring multiple quests become inconsistent.
• Weak Characters: Characters who don’t borrow deeply from a quest aren’t layered & complex.
• Disjointed Story: Interweaving characters by relationships & not quests creates plot gaps.

Every Mythological tale is a quest to fulfil a human desire. Human beings have 16 basic desires. Hence, each desire is present in at least 1/16th of the population. When stories adopt one mythological tale, it resonates with 1/16th or 6.67% of the population. The appeal doubles to 13.33% with two mythological tales in a story. When 3 mythological tales are interwoven it appeals to at least 20% of the population. Top Gun Maverick, Forrest Gump & Love Story interweave 3 mythological tales. And the movies resonated with more than 20% of the audience.

Star Wars, E.T. & Jurassic Park have interwoven 5 mythological tales. Incorporating another mythological tale in any of the above movies would have diluted existing characters due to the limited runtime. The constraint of runtime hampers the exploration of character intricacies when too many tales are included—typically, blockbusters stick to around six tales.


However, a series or movies with sequels can use more than 10 mythological tales. Epics are a prime example of stories using more than 10 tales.

Blockbuster stories borrow events from various mythological tales. And each character uniquely mirrors the events of one mythological tale. Consequently, the plot unfolds as a composite of diverse character quests. However, achieving a cohesive plot structure demands that these quests are not disjointed; rather, they must be intricately interwoven. To seamlessly integrate two quests, a crucial prerequisite is a shared common event. This common event acts as a confluence point, facilitating the harmonious interweaving of the two quests into a unified and compelling plot.

At Mythosis we estimate the most important metric of a script’s success – the audience appeal. Once we know the audience appeal estimating the revenue is simple. The revenue of a script is its audience size multiplied by the prevailing ticket price.

We extract the plot structure to estimate the audience appeal of a script. The plot structure reveals the story relevance, character depth, character consistency & story cohesiveness. An algorithm derived by analyzing Blockbusters & Flops calculates the potency of each parameter. The combined potency of the four parameters gives us the script score. The script score to audience appeal is a simple formula. Any movie with a script score of 0.64 appeals to 20% audience of the addressable market. And a script score of 0.32 appeals to 10%.

32 mythological tales capture every human quest. And to create a Blockbuster at least 3 tales are required.  By combining any five quests from 32 generates 24 million unique story plots. And if we combine six quests, that number increases to 600 million! Mythosis Code is the secret of successful storytelling and opens countless possibilities of stories.