Steven Soderbergh has revealed he used generative AI for his new documentary, John Lennon: The Last Interview, in collaboration with Meta.
The filmmaker, known for movies such as Black Bag, Erin Brockovich, and the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy, is working with the late Beatle’s estate to bring to life the last interview he gave, promoting the album ‘Double Fantasy’ with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The task for the documentary was to provide images for the audio-only interview.
Most of it that will be archival material. However, the Oscar-winner has revealed that 10 per cent of the film will feature AI-generated video footage, portraying surreal moments that he claims are not possible through creative methods.
“So now we’ve got it kind of laid out in chapters and we begin to fill in the areas in which John and Yoko are speaking about a specific experience that they had, or a specific piece of music, or a specific person, and layer in archival material over that text — sometimes stills, sometimes motion, video,” he told Deadline. “And we have a version of the movie in which the only holes that remain now are the sections where John and Yoko are talking in abstract philosophical terms.” Read the full story on NME
