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‘Road House’ Rumble: Amazon Denies AI Used To Create Actors’ Voices For Remake During Strike As Original Pic’s Scribe Sues To Shut Down New Movie
“I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice,” says Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton forbiddingly in the original Road House from 1989. That line from the David Lee Henry co-penned screenplay may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists today with a new lawsuit […]
With director Liman already boycotting the SXSW premiere because of the decision to put the flick on streaming on March 21 instead of in cinemas, the 2024 film now seems to have stepped on a very 21st century landmine, according to Hill and his seasoned legal team. “Hill is further informed and believes and based thereon alleges that Defendants went so far as to take extreme measures to try to meet this November 10, 2023 deadline, at considerable additional cost, including by resorting to the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) during the 2023 strike of the Screen Actor’s Guild (“SAG”) to replicate the voices of the 2024 Remake’s actors for purposes of ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement), all in knowing violation of the collective bargaining agreements of both SAG and the Director’s Guild of America (DGA) to which Defendants were signatories,” the 19-page complaint explosively claims. “The lawsuit filed by R. Lance Hill regarding Road House today is completely without merit and numerous allegations are categorically false,” an Amazon spokesperson told Deadline this afternoon.
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