Mad Max director George Miller says AI in film is here to stay
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peter1221 — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 06:18 PM)
His comments come as he is part of a jury at a film festival dedicated to AI produced movies. He sees AI's most useful role as a way to produce special effects more efficiently but doesn't think it will ever replace actors.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/09/ai-film-making-omni-festival-mad-max-director-george-miller-interview
“AI is arguably the most dynamically evolving tool in making moving image,” Miller tells the Guardian. “As a film-maker, I’ve always been driven by the tools. AI is here to stay and change things.”
Miller is about to lead the judging panel at the Omni 1.0 AI film festival, Australia’s first fully fledged award festival for wholly AI-generated films. He joined the jury out of “intense curiosity” about the evolving role of AI in storytelling – and his interest goes beyond the technology. AI, he believes, is part of a deeper philosophical shift in our understanding of creative authorship.
While Miller believes AI is unlikely to ever be capable of fully replicating the collaborative qualities of human performance, he sees its accessibility as a gamechanger.
“It will make screen storytelling available to anyone who has a calling to it,” he says. “I know kids not yet in their teens using AI. They don’t have to raise money. They’re making films – or at least putting footage together. It’s way more egalitarian.”
Why he thinks the human element to filmmaking can never be fully replaced:
He recalls a recent conversation he had with a group of fellow film-makers, one of whom had just seen the 2015 British documentary Listen to Me Marlon. The documentary makers had used what was, in 2015, cutting edge software to create a 3D rendering of Marlon Brando reciting Macbeth.
“In the future, anybody who wants to pay the rights for it can have Marlon Brando in their movie,” this film-maker had enthused to Miller. But another director – “younger and wiser than most of us”, Miller recalls – disagreed.
“[They] replied yes, you’ll have a character who looks like Marlon Brando, but you’ll have nothing close to Marlon Brando. You won’t have the engagement, that performances arise out of the collaborative effort between other actors and directors and writers and so on. You will not have the essence of Brando. -
sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 08, 2025 06:38 PM)
AI in film will probably last as long as film itself does, another five years give or take. By then, we'll be seeing mass unemployment, energy costs up to 300% higher, and likely worldwide riots over water shortages. All a prelude to WWIII: the people of the world against AI and those who foisted it upon us.
Movie studios, whose products aren't essential to human existence, will be among the first businesses to close down.
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