Could the next “Goodfellas” be fully made with AI? Or perhaps the next “Wolf of Wall Street”? Martin Scorsese likely wouldn’t do that — yet.
But the 83-year-old Oscar-winning director has become the latest auteur to embrace the technology on after he joined the German AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser. Scorsese is the highest-profile filmmaker to embrace the technology roiling many of his Hollywood peers and potentially representing a paradigm shift in how the film industry accepts its use.
“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 announcing his partnership, touting how he has used Black Forest Labs’ FLUX generative models to help storyboard scenes.
Hollywood’s relationship with AI has oscillated from a complete rejection to relatively enthusiastic adoption. Now the creative community is trying to figure out what Scorsese’s partnership with Black Forest Labs means for the wider film industry. Some responded to the news of his partnership with disgust, both over his embrace over AI — and conjuring up his past comments dictating what was and wasn’t considered “cinema,” such as his dismissal of Marvel’s sprawling series of superhero films.
