US EditionMercy: Chris Pratt on Being Locked Into an Executioner's Chair for New Film
Chris Pratt locked barefoot in an executioner's chair for 90 minutes in a real-time AI trial film where 92% of cases end in instant execution, exploring AI justice themes.
- On Friday, Mercy opens in UK cinemas and Chris Pratt, actor, requested to be locked barefoot in an executioner's chair to shape his role.
- To heighten authenticity, Pratt accepted being locked by director Timur Bekmambetov for up to 50 minutes while playing Chris Raven, who has 90 minutes to prove innocence to AI Judge Maddox in Mercy court.
- On set, Chris Pratt often had to perform several feet above ground in the chair, relying on Rebecca Ferguson's voice off-set while much action appears via surveillance footage and the 10,000 trial elements were shot.
- Pratt says trial by an AI judge system is not the way forward, affirming belief in a jury of peers and cautious optimism about evolving technologies.
- Though fictional, Mercy ties into real-world artificial intelligence in policing, which the National Police Chiefs' Council and a House of Lords report warned last year raised ethical, privacy and civil-liberties concerns.
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Without mercy it is science fiction and judicial drama, but also a reckoning with blind faith in AI systems that promise order in exchange for blind obedience. The film starts from a premise clearly inspired by Philip K. Dick's accounts: a man (Chris Pratt) who helped design an automated justice system, wakes up trapped in him, accused of the murder of his wife and with ninety minutes to convince an artificial intelligence that he deserves to re…
The Hollywood star plays a detective who has only 90 minutes to convince a judge/artificial intelligence that he didn't kill his wife.
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Chris Pratt requested to be locked in executioner's chair for Mercy
Chris Pratt has revealed that he asked to be locked in an executioner's chair for real to add to his performance in Mercy, in which he plays a detective trying to convince an AI judge that he didn't kill his wife.
The American actor stars 'No Mercy', a dystopian thriller, or not so much, in which he faces a trial against Artificial Intelligence
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