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Hollywood's first AI-made movie claims it turned a $300M production into a $70M one. The man behind that claim already ran this exact play once. It ended in two bankruptcies. Doug Liman shot "Bitcoin" in 20 days inside a former car showroom in West London. No built sets, no lighting rigs, just a gray box, because blue and green screen tests came back worse for the AI. Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck, and Pete Davidson acted against blank walls while the environments get generated in post. The…
Gal Gadot defends starring in Doug Liman's "Bitcoin" movie with AI sets and lighting because "the train has left the station. You’re going to work with it or be out of the game completely." “This was the longest contract I have ever worked on. It was six months for my lawyers to go through every scenario we could think about as far as the AI component of it. I did not want AI to have anything to do with my performance. We had to protect that... I am afraid of AI, but I am going to be afraid and look away? No. I am afraid but I am playing with it and learning it and trying to educate myself. The train has left the station. You’re going to work with it or be out of the game completely. I am trying to make the best of it and protect what I can protect. The AI component in this movie is for sets and the lighting. We had a broad crew and a lot of people were working on this movie.” “It felt like a pure art form of creating a movie. I haven’t seen a single shot. As an actress, I wait so much. There’s the legendary quote: ‘You are being paid to wait as an actor.’ Here we would film nonstop because we didn’t have to wait for lighting. We would film on and on and on for 10 hours. It was amazing… as actors you’re always hot. You don’t cool off. We’ll see. It’s crazy.” https://t.co/DqVBMREbUG