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Hollywood has been \u201ccooked<\/a>\u201d for years now, according to AI fanatics, yet movies still remain largely human-made, and nothing even close to an AI-generated blockbuster has hit the silver screen.<\/p>\n Even certain filmmakers have also been guilty of overselling the tech\u2019s capabilities. Take \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d director Joe Russo, who enthused in an interview with Collider<\/a> that there would be a fully AI movie within \u201ctwo years\u201d \u2014 exactly three years ago.<\/p>\n Perhaps Russo was thinking of the direction his own filmography was headed in, which has felt increasingly AI-generated with each successive film. \u201cThe Gray Man\u201d (2022) was a $200 million anonymous cobbling together of action set pieces reheated from better movies that not even Ryan Gosling could save. The Electric State (2025), which cost $320 million, could reasonably be accused of being written by ChatGPT, and its fake-movie aesthetic is a \u201cmake it EPIC!\u201d AI-bowdlerization of the illustrated novel it was very loosely based on.<\/p>\n Russo \u2014 who sits on the board of several AI companies \u2014 and his brother Anthony, have been prominent voices for generative AI in an industry polarized by its intrusion, and in which even the mere hint of the tech being used in a film\u2019s production is a potential mini-scandal.<\/p>\n In the Collider interview, he argued that AI will help with the \u201cdemocratization of storytelling,\u201d empowering up-and-coming artists who don\u2019t have a lot of resources at their disposal.<\/p>\n He even predicted that audiences could use AI to shape what they were watching,\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou could walk into your house and save the AI on your streaming platform,\u201d Russo said. \u201c\u2018Hey, I want a movie starring my photoreal avatar and Marilyn Monroe\u2019s photoreal avatar. I want it to be a rom-com because I\u2019ve had a rough day,\u2019 and it renders a very competent story with dialogue that mimics your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n Though those prognostications have yet to pan out, Russo has remained an unwavering defender of AI. Shortly after the film\u2019s release in early 2025, he proudly admitted<\/a> to using AI-powered voice modulation in \u201cThe Electric State\u201d \u2014 amid the film already receiving heaps of negative coverage for being unbelievably bad.\u00a0He also claimed that the reason AI isn\u2019t regularly used in Hollywood is because \u201cpeople are afraid\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t understand\u201d the tech.<\/p>\n Russo is far from alone in claiming AI will transform the industry<\/a>, and for better or worse, he\u2019s probably right. But it\u2019s clearly not happening at anywhere near the pace or magnitude that AI advocates predicted it would. AI may be used behind the scenes, but it\u2019s nowhere near good enough to generate entire movies<\/a> \u2014 not even the kind of slop that the Russos spit out.<\/p>\n