"Darren Aronofsky, who directed The Whale and Mother!, teamed up with Google DeepMind and production house Primordial Soup to produce a series of shorts that dramatize the founding of the United States. It feels like a test of whether the guiding hand of one of Hollywood's biggest auteurs can bend an ugly and fiddly plagiarism machine to his own creative ends and produce something that doesn't make you want to hurl. I don't think it will be controversial to say it fails spectacularly."
"On This Day... 1776is an episodic series of YouTube videos that each focuses on a different point leading up to the American revolution. The fact-based vignettes are made with SAG voice actors and AI visuals, including a "combination of traditional filmmaking tools and emerging AI capabilities." The stated goal is "reframing the Revolution not as a foregone conclusion but as a fragile experiment shaped by those who fought for it.""
"Each new episode will drop on the 250th anniversary of the actual events depicted in it. The first one is dated January 1 and has George Washington raising a Continental Union Flag in Somerville, Massachusetts. The second is dated January 10 and has Benjamin Franklin urging Thomas Paine to write what would become his Common Sense pamphlet. There's also a trailer previewing the series if you want to get the gist without having to imbibe the full eight minutes of horror."
Darren Aronofsky collaborated with Google DeepMind and Primordial Soup to create On This Day... 1776, an episodic YouTube series dramatizing events leading to the American Revolution. Each fact-based vignette uses SAG voice actors and AI-generated visuals combining traditional filmmaking tools and emerging AI capabilities, with episodes released on the 250th anniversaries of depicted events. Early episodes portray George Washington raising a Continental Union Flag and Benjamin Franklin urging Thomas Paine to write Common Sense. The production achieves brief human interactions and heavily edited transitions that convey a linear narrative. Visual artifacts remain prominent, producing a History Channel–style vibe and flawed reenactment quality.
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