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‘Slow Horses’ & ‘One Life’ Director Predicts A Show Made Entirely By Generative AI Is Only Three-To-Five Years Away
'Slow Horses' director James Hawes has talked Apple TV+ hit and generative AI.
James Hawes spoke with legal teams at SAG-AFTRA and the WGA and undertook a poll with fellow directors and VFX workers after the BBC canceled long-running drama Doctors, in which he probed the likelihood of a fully AI series, he revealed today. The U.S. writers and actors guilds were able to secure guardrails surrounding use of AI in their contracts with the AMPTP following lengthy and messy negotiations last year, and Hawes said the U.S. DGA is sitting down with members and studios to discuss this every few months. Last month, Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha revealed to the inquiry she is making a Christmas movie about an Indian Ebenezer Scrooge set in London, financed by Zygi Kamasa’s new UK distributor True Brit.
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