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Jurassic World Rebirth is the sequel to Rogue One Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of AI in filmmaking, saying that “it’s a genius to help you” and “it’s going to be better than CGI”.
Edwards speaks at AI on the Lot, an event in Culver City, California, organized by Amazon, and in a statement reported by the Hollywood Reporter said: “I don’t see why you can’t enjoy these things as a filmmaker.
Edwards said that AI is very useful in filmmaking, saying: “It’s good to just iterate and figure out what the film should be, and then when you know what that is, go in and start making your movie.”
He added: “It’s tasteless at all. He’s a professional. I feel like having a second-tier director who’s a billionaire on acid. Like, he’ll do anything you ask, no problem. Sometimes, (he goes) crazy. And you give the script, and it’s like, ‘I don’t do anything’. But it’s important to do it.”
Edward’s positive views on AI were echoed by veteran writer and director Paul Schrader, who also spoke at the event. In a statement reported by DeadlineSchrader said: “I don’t think the real future of commercial AI is in all this flash, all these monsters – it’s special effects on steroids,” he said. “The real tip of the spear is when we can create an AI protagonist, not a hybrid, and the film makes money. If you create a new Clint Eastwood, but you don’t say the word ‘Clint Eastwood’ to the AI, you just describe him. And he comes as Clint Eastwood.”
Schrader added: “And the video comes out, and we carbon-based idiots spend our money to sympathize and care for silicon-based products.”
Schrader, the director of American Gigolo and First Reformed and the writer of Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese, said that the extras are no longer needed. “Why do we pay $180 a day when it looks like plastic? Not only do we pay for it, but we need to clothe and feed it. Why not just make it?
So far, films using gen AI graphics have not gone down well with critics, including Steven Soderbergh’s documentary John Lennon: The Last Interviewwhich AI ranks the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw described as “absurd and very average”.
Edwards, however, said that the evolution of AI technology means that it is impossible to predict the future. “We don’t know where it will go, I think anyone who says what will happen in the next five years is just a liar.
