Showrunner To Use AI To Rebuild Orson Welles’ Lost, Mutilated Masterpiece
Showrunner's AI-driven project aims to restore 43 minutes of Orson Welles' lost footage using 30,000 frames and traditional techniques over two years.
- On Friday, Showrunner announced a new generative AI model to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons.
- Decades earlier, studio trimming and negative destruction produced the loss of about 43 minutes when RKO Pictures cut down Orson Welles's 131-minute original cut to an 88-minute theatrical cut and destroyed negatives to free vault space.
- To reconstruct lost scenes, the team will combine AI-generated approximations with live actors filmed for reshot sequences, using AI face and pose transfer techniques, overseen by filmmaker Brian Rose and FILM-1 model AI VFX artists.
- Showrunner says the work will remain noncommercial due to lack of rights from Warner Bros. Discovery and Concord, with CEO Edward Saatchi saying, 'The goal isn't to commercialize the 43 minutes.'
- The move intensifies debates over AI in Hollywood as its use stalled 2023 strikes talks and many classic film fans find AI restorations abhorrent, especially after the Wizard of Oz AI alteration.
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Amazon-backed AI firm is trying to recreate a lost Hollywood masterpiece
An Amazon-backed AI firm is looking to recreate the lost footage of a Hollywood masterpiece. The Hollywood Reporter published a detailed look at the efforts from the firm Showrunner to use generative artificial intelligence to reconstruct the missing 43 minutes — footage that was burned by studio execs — from the 1942 Orson Welles film The Magnificent Ambersons. Wrote the Reporter:"Showrunner’s endeavor will deploy a fusion of AI and traditional…
An AI company plans to recreate the lost parts of Orson Welles' 83-year-old legendary film "The Magnificent Ambersons."
'Lost' Orson Welles Movie Gets AI Recreation
Amazon-backed AI company Showrunner has announced an ambitious plan – they want to use their technology to reconstruct the destroyed 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ 1942 feature “The Magnificent Ambersons”. On Friday, the company announced a new AI model designed to generate long, complex narratives – the aim being to build feature film length, live-action films and for the company to become the ‘Netflix of AI’. The platform is also dedicated to AI …
Orson Welles Estate Slams AI Company’s Plan to Recreate Lost Scenes of ‘Magnificent Ambersons’: ‘Disappointing’ and an ‘Attempt to Generate Publicity’
The Orson Welles estate objects to AI startup Fable Studio’s plans to “reconstruct” lost footage of the director’s 1942 feature “The Magnificent Ambersons,” which had 43 minutes cut from its released edition. Edward Saatchi, the CEO of the Amazon-backed company, appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday morning to announce his company’s AI platform Showrunner […]
Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic
Showrunner — the startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry by charging people to prompt up AI-generated videos featuring copyrighted IP — is working on a new project to restore an Orson Welles classic. On Friday, Showrunner announced that it has designed a new generative AI model that is meant to help recreate lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles’ 1942 adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s 1918 novel about a fami…
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