Steven Soderbergh plans to use artificial intelligence in a film he is working on with Wagner Moura.
In an interview Tuesday with Director magazinethe Black bag The director told the outlet that he was “trying to make a film about the Spanish-American War.” The interviewer responded with a question: “With the ships and everything? What would you be using it for…”
“A lot of AI,” Soderbergh replied. Christophers The director continued to talk about the status of the project, explaining that Moura is set to play the lead role while he tries to star in the rest of the film.
“It’s a really good story,” he said, “and no one’s really done it. Every day that goes by it gets more relevant. I just have to throw it in. I’ve got a Wagner Moura. I need a few more people.” “I have two studios circling the film, but it’s all about how much I can do for it. But if I can get the right cast together, it will make something happen, and people will feel like they have to see it now instead of waiting two months for it to air. It’s a weird time to make movies.”
Earlier in the interview, the director noted that he had been using AI in his upcoming documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and that it had been “useful in creating surreal, objective images that occupy dream space rather than literal space,” though they still “heavily require very close human supervision.”
“I’ve been working with AI recently on a John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary that we’re almost finished. The AI has helped create thematically surreal images that occupy dream space rather than literal space,” Soderbergh noted. “And that was really interesting because you need a PhD in literature to tell it what to do. But like every other piece of technology, it very much requires very close human supervision.”
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