Brooks Barnes

You know, it's like, we didn't create this demand, but they're going to do it somehow, so they might as well get it from us.

And it's not just the legs.

It's arms, legs, torsos, the whole... It's a whole character that AI is putting into a scene where you didn't see it before.

So in some scenes where you know a character is present, but in the original version, because of the, you know, camera ratio is not on screen, that...

character is added in.

So like the Cowardly Lion is now seen or the Tin Man or Uncle Henry early on the farm was recreated.

So they didn't create new characters, but the poppy field goes on and on and on and on now.

Yeah, Alyssa, you said something really important, which was with the creator involved.

Like, can you imagine taking E.T.

or Jaws or, you know, a Steven Spielberg movie and saying, well, you won't be involved, Mr. Spielberg.

We're going to change everything.

Right.

You know, every shot in those films is created through an artistic, you know, sensibility.

And so that was really part of the reason that purists and a lot of people in Hollywood did not like the, you know, what Sphere decided to do here.

Well, you understand that.

It's the vacationing masses need to get back to the gambling tables.

Don't laugh, but one of the positive ways that companies spin this is that the studios, that if AI reduces costs, makes it easier, cheaper for us to make these movies,

We can justify taking bolder creative risks if it's not so expensive.

It's a little rich to hear studio executives talk like that, right?

Like, okay, I believe you.