Orson Welles is a legendary filmmaker who helped shape Hollywood as we know it today. While many remember him for Citizen Kane, his second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons, is also incredibly important. And many think it could be as crucial as Kane, if we were able to see the movie as Welles originally intended.See, RKO chopped 43 minutes from the movie and melted down the film for Nitrate.For decades, that lost footage has been the Holy Grail of film preservation, a cinematic white whale that Welles himself said tore him apart.Now, a streamer called Showrunner, which we've covered, is going to use artificial intelligence to recreate the lost 43 minutes of The Magnificent Ambersons.Let's dive in. - YouTubewww.youtube.comHow AI Is Being Used on The Magnificent AmbersonsI have to admit, I hate this idea. But I want to go in without judgment. So let's take a peek at the process.Showrunner isn’t just feeding a prompt into a machine and hoping for the best. They’re teaming up with Brian Rose, a Welles enthusiast who has spent the last five years painstakingly trying to reconstruct the lost scenes using charcoal drawings, physical set models, and recovered screenplay drafts. They're also bringing in Tom Clive, a digital artist who worked on Robert Zemeckis' Here.The plan is to use AI with model motion and trajectory control, generate the settings from set photos, and then transpose the faces of the original stars onto live actors.It’s an ambitious plan, one that Showrunner CEO Edward Saatchi says is...
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