On Friday, Showrunner announced that it has designed a new generation AI model to help recreate lost footage The magnificent AmbersonWells' 1942, Boostachton's 1918 novel adaptation is a novel about a family that is being destroyed by technology-driven industrialization. Wells initially created a version of the film, which had runtime clocked in at 131 minutes, but one of the project's production companies, RKO, reduced it to 88 minutes without director input after losing control of the editing process.
However, showrunners believe that using generative AI can help people regain lost footage and give people the opportunity to see it. The magnificent Amberson Wells was originally intended. In a statement Hollywood Reporter On the new project, showrunner co-founder Edward Sarch admitted that the currently existing generator AI “can't maintain the story beyond a short episode,” but he is confident that “tech is approaching encouraging an entire film with AI.”
Wells wrote a detailed note on how he wanted it The magnificent Amerson To cut, RKO did not follow them, and the studio eventually destroyed the negatives correlated to the film's lost footage for storage reasons. Showrunner intends to avoid those hurdles by combining an AI-generated approximation that Welles may have shot with a sequence featuring live actors whose Face is being manipulated with Gen AI to make them look like members of the cast of the original film. According to Indiewire, Showrunner's Film-1 model is used to generate keyframes for missing footage and create “spatial settings” using the set photos.
To make the project come true, Showrunner invited Tom Clive, an AI VFX artist who specializes in facial swapping and worked on previously. Alien: Romulus and here The metaphysical showrunner also works with filmmaker Brian Rose, who previously tried his own. Amberson Repaired with hand-drawn animation based on filming scripts from the 1942 film and archival photos from the original production.
Speaking to NPR in 2023, Rose said living in scenes that recreate the character was one of the more challenging aspects of the effort. Rose also has an intellectual property right to Wells. The magnificent Amberson'S, there was some degree of uncertainty about whether he could legally release the project, and “it was to ask for forgiveness later.”
Showrunner is no stranger to go on the “just do it and worry about the consequences later” route. The startup has created a headline to release previously unauthorized episodes South Park It was created using an in-house generated AI model. The company appears to be trying to get ahead of legal troubles by choosing not to monetize it Amberson project.
Search said thr The goal here is not to make money from lost footage, but to “see it exists in the world after 80 years of people asked, which could have been the best film made in its original form.” He also said that the showrunner would be happy to create, “see the market for it, see the market for it, see the road outside of academic context.”
