Scorsese Uses AI Storyboards for Next Film as Hollywood Tool Threatens 1 Key Crew Role
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Updated · The Guardian · Nov 10
Scorsese Uses AI Storyboards for Next Film as Hollywood Tool Threatens 1 Key Crew Role
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Nov 10
Summary
Scorsese said in June he partnered with an AI firm and used its text-to-image model to storyboard his next movie, bringing generative AI into one of film production’s earliest creative stages.
That shift puts storyboard artists directly in AI’s path, because software can now turn text prompts into scene illustrations that traditionally came from close collaboration between directors, artists and other visual department heads.
Artists and film scholars argue storyboards do more than produce drawings: they help shape cinematic language, test blocking and composition, and preserve the evolution of a film’s creative vision.
Other major directors are already experimenting with AI tools—James Cameron sits on a generative AI company board, Steven Soderbergh used Meta-backed animation tech, and Christopher Nolan has endorsed limited use as imaging tools.
The debate now reaches beyond efficiency to craft, with some in the industry expecting AI adoption to increase while human-made storyboards gain value as a marker of authenticity.