Danny Boyle Confirms 30 Seconds of AI in 'Ink' as Film Debuts With 85% Rotten Tomatoes
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Updated · Deadline · Sep 5
Danny Boyle Confirms 30 Seconds of AI in 'Ink' as Film Debuts With 85% Rotten Tomatoes
2 articles · Updated · Deadline · Sep 5
Summary
About 30 seconds of generative AI appears in Danny Boyle’s new film "Ink," which he said was used to animate old photographs and create mice in The Sun newsroom.
Boyle’s comments to Vanity Fair appear to confirm social-media speculation that AI helped reanimate images including the Kray brothers and Margaret Thatcher after the film opened at Venice and played Telluride.
The director called AI a useful tool if used respectfully and said actors should be paid when their likeness is replaced, even as he warned earlier in Venice that AI could threaten journalism.
"Ink" stars Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, follows The Sun’s 1970s rise under Larry Lamb and Rupert Murdoch, and is set for a December cinema release before Netflix in January.