Gareth Edwards Is Excited About AI Filmmaking
Director Gareth Edwards isn’t afraid of generative AI and what it may portend for Hollywood. In fact, he’s pumped about it. The helmer of Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One has been experimenting with diffusion models in depth for the last nine months and even wants to create a hybrid generative AI film, he said on a panel on Thursday. But he isn’t doing so yet, because the rate at which technological developments are occurring might outpace the filmmaking process. “It feels like this stuff’s changing every three months,” he said. “It’s like we have to revisit the plan six months from now because it might be a totally different series of tools. And the things that … weren’t possible three months ago or six months ago, some of them are now possible.” His interest is perhaps unsurprising, given that he directed 2023’s The Creator, a sci-fi film that largely took a positive approach to the topic of artificial intelligence. But his public embrace of the technology is still rare amongst his cohort, a.k.a. directors …
