Martin Scorsese is the latest Oscar-winning director to hop on the AI wagon, joining the AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser in a bid to “push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences.”
“Cinema is a young medium, only around 125 years old, so we have to be open to how it can evolve,” Scorsese said in a statement posted on Black Forest Labs’ website. “I utilized 3D with ‘Hugo’ and de-aging technology for ‘The Irishman.’ Now, with this tool, I can share what I’m visualizing more clearly and efficiently to my creative team — the production designer, art designer, and cinematographer — for them to build on to enrich cinematic intelligence.”
In a video filmed at Scorsese’s New York City office that accompanied the partnership’s announcement, the “Goodfellas“ director uses the firm’s FLUX generative-AI model to help storyboard a scene. He then discusses staging the crime film’s famous Steadicam shot, which tracks mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he makes his way through the Copacabana nightclub, and notes how each “vignette” through the scene had to be intricately staged.
“If you have a tool like this, you could figure it out much much quicker and you could save production time, and also less wear and tear on the crew,” Scorsese said in the video.
