{"id":249160,"date":"2025-10-24T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249160\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:37:09","slug":"paul-schrader-claims-to-have-the-perfect-script-for-an-ai-generated-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249160\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader claims to have the “perfect script” for an AI-generated feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you\u2019re likely aware, artificial intelligence is a hot topic of debate in the film industry. But Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of films like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and director of American Gigolo and Mishima has publicly embraced the tech. A couple of months ago, Schrader took to Facebook to wax<\/a> about the potential of AI generated film criticism and has since shared an AI image of him embracing Yukio Mishima<\/a> after Schrader\u2019s film about him finally landed distribution in Japan<\/a>. Point being, Schrader is bullish on the technology, so much so that he thinks the \u201cfirst AI feature\u201d is \u201conly two years away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, \u2018You know, this would be a perfect script to do all AI,\u2019\u201d Schrader says in a new interview with Vanity Fair<\/a> at the mention of AI \u201cactors\u201d like Tilly Norwood<\/a>. When asked about his embrace of it, Schrader said \u201cit\u2019s just a tool,\u201d explaining, \u201cWhen you\u2019re an author, you have to describe someone\u2019s reaction. You use a code\u2013you use a code of words, a certain number of letters, and so forth, and you express their facial reaction. An actor has their own code. Well, now you\u2019re a pixelator, and you can create the face, and you can create the emotion on the face, and you can sculpt it the same way an author sculpts the reaction in a novel or a story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, there is a range of AI technology, from tools like a Respeecher used in The Brutalist<\/a> to the wholesale generation of images like Norwood. But Schrader seems to be of the opinion that it\u2019s pretty much all good, at least based on this interview where he goes on to claim that \u201cAI is taking over film coverage, as you must know. AI does better coverage than the average coverage.\u201d Schrader is probably correct that an all-AI feature is not too far off, with filmmakers like Radu Jude<\/a> and Harmony Korine<\/a> already experimenting with it. But it should be noted that even with Schrader\u2019s hypothetical AI feature, there\u2019s still a man behind the computer writing the script.<\/p>\n

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