How long will generative AI take to make a movie?

Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, offered his thoughts on the impact of generative AI on Hollywood, making a bleak, bold prediction that he framed as a positive development. “Two years,” Russo told Collider, when asked “how many years” it will take until AI is able to “actually create” a movie.

Will movies like the Avengers be AI generated?

It's not so far-fetched to believe movies like the Avengers will be totally AI generated in the near future, because in a way blockbuster movies already are made by a machine. Corporations are legal machines; people are the hardware and the rules, policies and incentives that govern the corporation are the software.

Is Russo on the Board of AI companies?

“I’m on the board of a few AI companies,” Russo told Collider. “I’m gonna speak from my experience of being on the board of those companies, [so] there are AI companies that are developing AI to protect you from AI.

Is Russo describing a movie?

Russo doesn’t seem to be describing a movie at all, but a self-insert fantasy, a digital daydream devoid of imagination; one could imagine Russo’s suggestion appearing in a dystopian vision of the future written by a jaded sci-fi writer (it’s certainly not far from the nightmare written by Roald Dahl ).