"Showrunner - the startup that wants to "revolutionize" the entertainment industry by charging people to prompt up AI-generated videos featuring copyrighted IP - is working on a new project to restore an Orson Welles classic. On Friday, Showrunner announced that it has designed a new generative AI model that is meant to help recreate lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles' 1942 adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 novel about a family whose vast fortune is being decimated by tech-driven industrialization."
"Though Welles initially crafted a version of the film whose runtime clocked in at 131 minutes, RKO - one of the project's production companies - cut it down to 88 minutes without the director's input after he lost control of the editing process. The studio's cut went on to be nominated for four Oscars and is broadly considered to be one of Welles' best works. Welles, whom RKO accused of being difficult to work with, disowned the studio's version of the film. He reportedly later said that "they destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me.""
Showrunner developed a generative AI model aimed at reconstructing lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons, the Orson Welles film cut dramatically by RKO. Welles originally completed a 131-minute version; RKO reduced it to 88 minutes without his input and destroyed the related negatives. The company plans to combine AI-generated approximations of what Welles might have filmed with sequences using live actors whose faces are manipulated. The company acknowledges current generative AI limitations in sustaining long-form storytelling but views the technology as approaching the capacity to prompt full-length films.
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