{"id":518970,"date":"2026-04-08T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:38:08","slug":"steven-soderbergh-teases-a-lot-of-ai-in-his-upcoming-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518970\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Soderbergh teases “a lot of AI” in his upcoming movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Soderbergh has never been opposed to integrating new technologies into his famously speedy filmmaking process. But imagine how much quicker he could pump out three movies a year if he used the plagiarism machine? Imagine no longer. In a disappointing new interview with Filmmaker Magazine<\/a> about his upcoming, offbeat art heist movie, The Christophers<\/a>, Soderbergh explains how he\u2019s using AI to complete his upcoming John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary and an epic about the Spanish-American War.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the interview, Soderbergh admits that he\u2019s been working with AI to create \u201cthematically surreal images\u201d for a nearly complete documentary about John and Yoko. The documentary will explore the couple\u2019s work outside of music, relying on a three-hour interview the couple did with RKO Radio hours before he was killed. But the only way to create \u201cimages that are kind of a surreal version of what their words try to transmit\u201d is by using AI, a process he\u2019s found \u201creally fun because you need a Ph.D. in literature to tell it what to do.\u201d In his estimation, about 90 percent of the 90-minute film is archival stills, with \u201clittle pockets of images we created whenever they start talking philosophically.\u201d That amounts to about 10 minutes of pure Liverpudlian slop reserved for when there is \u201cno literal component for what they\u2019re saying.\u201d Unsurprisingly, the AI industry has used enough energy, poisoned enough water sources, and ingested enough Beatles documentaries to spit out interstitial images that the human mind couldn\u2019t possibly create. Still, he admits that it \u201cdesperately requires very close human supervision.\u201d Sounds like a real time-saver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soderbergh must have liked the process of finding just the right way to prompt his AI to get the perfect psychedelic and surreal John Lennon image. In addition to the documentary, Soderbergh tells Filmmaker that he\u2019s using \u201ca lot of AI\u201d for a planned movie about the Spanish-American War, starring Wagner Moura. \u201cIt\u2019s a weird time to be making movies,\u201d Soderbergh says. Boy, is it ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Soderbergh has never been opposed to integrating new technologies into his famously speedy filmmaking process. But imagine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518970","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=518970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}