Darren Aronofsky, director of The Wrestler, Black Swan, and The Whale, has a new project in the pipeline, a series of short, AI-generated stories depicting scenes from the USA\u2019s Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, a preview of the series, On This Day\u2026 1776, hit social media, and people are up in arms \u2026appropriately enough.<\/p>\n
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky’s new AI animated series ‘On This Day\u2026 1776’ <\/p>\n
\u2022 Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War<\/p>\n
\u2022 Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind<\/p>\n
\u2022 Has SAG voice actors<\/p>\n
[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Culture Crave (@culturecrave.co<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 5:48 PM<\/a><\/p>\n The series will be shown on Time\u2019s YouTube channel, with each episode\u2019s release coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the event it depicts. <\/p>\n People were surprised that the Screen Actor\u2019s Guild had allowed its members to be involved in something that\u2019s such a huge threat to industry employment figures. They were also baffled that so-called environmentalist Aronofsky would buy into something with such heavy water wastage.<\/p>\n None of the public\u2019s reactions to the snippets are likely to end up on the \u2018On This Day\u2026 1776\u2019 advertising posters.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n 1.<\/p>\n The Slop Heard Around The World <\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Greg Jenner (Historian) (@gregjenner.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:40 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 2.<\/p>\n Finally we\u2019ll see the story of how the nation of Aamerleda was founded<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Allosaur (@allosaur.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 3.<\/p>\n Makes sense that AI trash is going to be used a lot in american nationalist productions<\/p>\n \u2014 Arga (@argakyan.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 4.<\/p>\n A lot of filmmakers have been washed up, but Aranofsky wants to reach previously unknown heights of how washed up a filmmaker can become.<\/p>\n \u2014 J\u00f3n Kristinsson (@jonkk.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:06 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 5.<\/p>\n Looks like disgusting fucking slop and every actor involved is a scab<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ian Fay (@ianfay.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 7:18 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 6.<\/p>\n Whoever voice acted in this is going on my shitlist.<\/p>\n \u2014 Scott Frerichs (@kaiserneko.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 7.<\/p>\n i\u2019d rather die of whatever people of that time died of, probably shitting myself to death if i had to guess<\/p>\n \u2014 (@thatsgoodweb.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 8.<\/p>\n I’d rather watch “Requiem for a Dream” again and I’m never fucking watching “Requiem for a Dream” again. bsky.app\/profile\/cult\u2026<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 9.<\/p>\n Darren AISlopfsky<\/p>\n \u2014 Rob (@mrpostsgood.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 5:57 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 10.<\/p>\n “A.i.” trash. Do not support; do not watch.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Greg Pak (@gregpak.net<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 11.<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Steamed Headcrabs (@steamedheadcrabs.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:22 PM<\/a><\/p>\n 12.<\/p>\n I wish there was any way to understand *why* he thinks AI is the future of filmmak- ah. right. <\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 J\u00f3n Kristinsson (@jonkk.bsky.social<\/a>) January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky, director of The Wrestler, Black Swan, and The Whale, has a new project in the pipeline,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-398786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}