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Director Martin Scorsese Joins AI Image Startup Black Forest Labs
- On Tuesday, Acadamy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese announced a partnership with AI startup Black Forest Labs, serving as an advisor focused on improving his storyboarding process.
- Based in Freiburg, Germany, the 70-person Black Forest Labs is valued at $3.25 billion by investors including BroadLight Capital, co-founded by Scorsese's talent manager Rick Yorn.
- Using the firm's FLUX generative-AI model, Scorsese tested the tool to visualize scenes and share storyboards with his creative team, claiming the process saves production time.
- Other Acadamy Award-winning directors hold divergent views; Guillermo Del Toro opposes AI in art, while Peter Jackson compared it to a "special effect" and Gareth Edwards seeks hybrid AI filmmaking.
- Scorsese views cinema as a young medium—only around 125 years old—and advocates remaining open to technological evolution to push creative boundaries and enrich audience experiences.
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Boots Riley Thinks Martin Scorsese "Doesn't Give A F*ck" About AI
As Martin Scorsese embraces artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood, his filmmaking peers are reacting to the Oscar winner’s new role. Boots Riley recently criticized Scorsese for his “attempt to push the industry toward” genAI with his advisor position at AI firm Black Forest Labs, suggesting he only joined the company for the money. “My guess: […]
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The Oscar-winning director uses artificial intelligence to create storyboards. "Tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs this way."
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Half Moore prophesied during the Cannes Film Festival that it was necessary "to find ways to work with" artificial intelligence.
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