Variety<\/a>, will be filmed entirely with AI background on a \u201cmarkerless performative capture stage,\u201d with no on-location shooting.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s right\u2014the film plans to use AI technology to create backgrounds and scenery, and not just that, to also \u201ctweak\u201d actors\u2019 performances\u2014adjusting lip, facial, and body movements\u2014if needed, of course. This is all being done to \u201creduce the need for reshoots.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film\u2019s producer, Ryan Kavanagh, is attempting to calm the inevitable industry firestorm, stressing that the film will not replace real actors with AI-generated performers. \u201cWe will not have any AI-generated actors that do not exist,\u201d he told Variety, emphasizing that AI is being used as a tool to make filmmaking more efficient while protecting jobs.<\/p>\n
\u201cKilling Satoshi\u201d begins production in the U.K. from late February through March. Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson star in the film about Bitcoin\u2019s elusive creator. The screenplay comes from Nick Schenk, who penned Eastwood\u2019s \u201cGran Torino\u201d and \u201cThe Mule.\u201d His script reportedly follows a shadowy global network intent on silencing the truth about Bitcoin\u2019s mysterious creator.<\/p>\n
Since Bitcoin\u2019s emergence in 2009, Nakamoto has remained an enigma\u2014seen by some as a visionary liberating individuals from traditional finance, and by others as a destabilizing threat to governments and institutions. Analysts believe Nakamoto mined roughly one million Bitcoin in the early years, an untouched fortune now valued at around $64 billion. If still alive, that would make Nakamoto one of the wealthiest people on the planet.<\/p>\n
The story being told here sounds promising and is the stuff of fascinating debate\u2014and rabbit holes\u2014but the use of AI is certainly a twist: odd in nature and completely unexpected. I\u2019m sure the upcoming SAG-AFTRA negotiations will have a field day with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WTF! I bet this wasn\u2019t on your bingo card. What a strange update we have about the upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-426259","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426259","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=426259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}