{"id":466936,"date":"2026-02-13T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:58:08","slug":"pete-davidson-bitcoin-biopic-killing-satoshi-to-use-ai-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466936\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson Bitcoin Biopic ‘Killing Satoshi’ to Use AI Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe upcoming Bitcoin biopic from director Doug Liman<\/a> and producer Ryan Kavanaugh has disclosed in a U.K. casting notice that the indie film may use AI to \u201cadjust\u201d some performances. Actors will also perform on a \u201cmarkerless performative capture stage and not in any locations, using new Al technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe casting notice states actors that the film\u2019s producers reserve the right to \u201cchange, add to, take from, translate, reformat or reprocess\u201d their performances using \u201cgenerative artificial intelligence (GAI) and\/or machine learning technologies,\u201d including to adjust lip, facial and body movements. It confirms that AI won\u2019t be used to create a \u201crecognizable and identifiable digital replica\u201d of an actor\u2019s voice or likeness without \u201cprior written consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, producer Ryan Kavanaugh told Variety: \u201cWe were very cautious, sensitive and overly protective of our actors to make sure we only use performance capture AI which means that we will not have any AI-generated actors that do not exist. AI is a tool we\u2019re using to make the filmmaking process more efficient while maintaining all department heads\u2019 jobs, all actor jobs and hopefully helping to grow the industry in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe casting notice also states that any performers who agree to sign on to the film \u201cacknowledge they may be sharing scenes with AI-generated performers.\u201d However a source close to the film tells Variety references to AI actors in the casting notice were included in error and that no Tilly Norwood-style creations<\/a> will be used for the movie.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not accurate,\u201d said the production source. \u201cEvery actor in this movie will be a [real] actor that is acting\u2026.You couldn\u2019t get it to a spec you needed for a movie, creating a full AI actor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe source did confirm \u201cKilling Satoshi<\/a>\u201d would be entirely creating the backgrounds and scenery in AI, with no shooting on location, and that AI would be used to tweak actors\u2019 performances in place of re-shoots if necessary. \u201cThey won\u2019t be made to say anything they didn\u2019t say but let\u2019s say the way they said it in conjunction with the movement doesn\u2019t look perfect, you wouldn\u2019t need to reshoot it. We\u2019d just use AI to make it look better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe issues for actors raised by the disclosures in the \u201cKilling Satoshi\u201d casting notice go squarely to the heart of the compensation and consent debate that is winding its way through copyright claims in the federal courts and also via labor union contract negotiations, particularly in creative industries. SAG-AFTRA, which started film and TV contract negotiations with the major studios and streamers on Feb. 9, is wrestling deeply with where to draw the line on the reuse and repurposing of existing material. The issue of \u201csynthetic\u201d performances versus human labor is fueling SAG-AFTRA and other unions\u2019 efforts to find contractual and legislative means of achieving name\/image\/likeness protections for actors at all levels in the industry.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKilling Satoshi\u201d is about to go into production in the U.K. and the casting notice is looking for supporting actors who are available from the end of this month through March. As Variety exclusively revealed last year, Davidson and Affleck take top billing in the film<\/a> about mysterious Bitcoin creator who launched the decentralized finance crypto currency revolution with a 2008 white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The pursuit of the true identity of Nakamoto has become to the digital generation what the search for Deep Throat was to the Watergate generation. It\u2019s been the subject of countless books, articles, documentaries and Reddit threads.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKilling Satoshi\u201d is financed through Kavanaugh\u2019s production company Proxima in conjunction with Aperture Media Partners. \u201cGran Torino\u201d scribe Nick Schenk wrote the screenplay. Dixie Chassay is casting the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming Bitcoin biopic from director Doug Liman and producer Ryan Kavanaugh has disclosed in a U.K. casting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15740,88,217198,13954],"class_list":["post-466936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-doug-liman","tag-entertainment","tag-killing-satoshi","tag-pete-davidson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}