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Rianna is the Movie News Editor for ScreenRant. After earning her BA in Film Studies, she began her career as an entertainment writer, contributing to several publications before joining ScreenRant. Her dissertation on the impact of streaming on traditional cinema sharpened her focus on the ever-evolving world of film and media. With 6 years in the industry, Rianna continues to cover the stories she loves while also advocating for awareness and representation of rare disabilities, such as Moebius Syndrome, which she lives with.
The Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum will make some controversial decisions.
Andy Serkis, who will be returning as Gollum and directing the new movie, revealed in an interview with Variety that the new Lord of the Rings movie will be implementing AI. This movie is likely to cause controversy amongst fans and fellow filmmakers and actors who have been protesting the use of AI and fighting to maintain ownership over their property and likeness.
“There’s a little bit of de-aging for some of the characters, and machine learning is part of the process. When you think about it, in the original Lord of the Rings films, Peter created MASSIVE, which was a program that allowed 1000s of orcs to all have their own individual mindset. So that is a brilliant example of an incredible use of AI. But we’re not creating AI shots in our movie, every shot is created in a traditional way.
One of the things actually that I really wanted to do with this film was to bring back all of the great filmmaking skills, from miniatures to prosthetics, and marry them up, because that’s my taste. I like it when you mix up different filmmaking techniques.”
More to come…
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