Steven Soderbergh is planning to utilize artificial intelligence for a movie he has in the works with Wagner Moura.
In a Tuesday interview with Filmmaker Magazine, the Black Bag director told the outlet he was “trying to get a movie made about the Spanish-American War.” The interviewer replied by asking, “With ships and everything? For which you would use…”
Soderbergh responded, “A lot of AI.” The Christophers filmmaker continued by shedding light on the status of the project, explaining that Moura is set to star while he’s trying to cast the rest of the film.
“It’s a really good story, and nobody’s really done it. Every day that goes by it becomes more timely. I’ve just got to get it cast. I’ve got Wagner Moura. I need a few more people,” he said. “I have two studios circling, but it’s all about how much I can do it for. But if I can get the right cast together, that will eventize it, and people will feel they have to see it now rather than waiting two months until it streams. It’s a weird time to be making movies.”
Earlier in the interview, the director noted that he was using AI for his upcoming John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary, and that it’d been “helpful in creating thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space,” though it still “desperately requires very close human supervision.”
“I’ve been working with AI lately on the John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary that we’re almost done with. AI has been helpful in creating thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space,” Soderbergh noted. “And that’s been really fun because you need a Ph.D. in literature to tell it what to do. But like every other piece of technology, it desperately requires very close human supervision.”
