{"id":572863,"date":"2026-04-09T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:54:10","slug":"steven-soderbergh-using-a-lot-of-ai-for-spanish-american-war-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572863\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Soderbergh Using “A Lot Of AI” For Spanish-American War Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Steven Soderbergh<\/a> journeys back to the late 19th century, he\u2019s taking a big leap into the future to make his next movie happen.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar winner recently noted that he plans to use \u201ca lot of AI<\/a>\u201d for his upcoming Spanish-American War movie, which he notes is \u201ca really good story\u201d with Wagner Moura<\/a> attached to star.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a really good story, and nobody\u2019s really done it,\u201d he explained to Filmmaker Magazine. \u201cEvery day that goes by it becomes more timely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSoderbergh added, \u201cI\u2019ve just got to get it cast. I\u2019ve got Wagner Moura. I need a few more people. I have two studios circling, but it\u2019s all about how much I can do it for. But if I can get the right cast together, that will eventize it, and people will feel they have to see it now rather than waiting two months until it streams. It\u2019s a weird time to be making movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently finishing his John Lennon and Yoko Ono documentary<\/a>, Soderbergh also revealed he\u2019s \u201cbeen working with AI lately\u201d on the film. \u201cIt\u2019s worth talking about what that technology might be good at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAI has been helpful in creating thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space,\u201d explained Soderbergh. \u201cAnd that\u2019s been really fun because you need a Ph.D. in literature to tell it what to do. But like every other piece of technology, it desperately requires very close human supervision.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSoderbergh noted that 90% of the doc uses archival stills, while \u201c10 minutes, spread out over the 90-minute film, are these little pockets of images we created whenever they start talking philosophically. When there\u2019s no literal component to what they\u2019re saying, then I create these images that are kind of a surreal version of what their words try to transmit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe use of AI in Hollywood continues to be a hot-button topic. Meanwhile, SAG-AFTRA has endorsed the Trump administration\u2019s AI policy framework<\/a>, which calls for Congress to enact legislation that includes parental controls, intellectual property rights protection, First Amendment protections, expanding AI workforce development, allowing data centers to generate their own power, and removing legal barriers that limit AI innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Steven Soderbergh journeys back to the late 19th century, he\u2019s taking a big leap into the future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[182,181,236,88,15763,62167,121903],"class_list":{"0":"post-572863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-john-lennon","13":"tag-steven-soderbergh","14":"tag-wagner-moura"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572863","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=572863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}