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Peter Bart: AI-Augmented ‘Putin’ Brings An Uncertain Reality To The Big Screen
Putin, a movie featuring an actor enhanced by AI, opens January 10, 2025 in about 200 in the U.S., Peter Bart writes.
Foreign policy experts speculate that a Vladimir Putin – Donald Trump summit could coincidentally take place within weeks of the movie’s opening. Vega, who has spent years studying Putin’s coming of age and climb to power, shot his $14 million movie in locations in Poland, Russia, Ukraine (even Chernobyl) and Israel. The film reveals how a young Putin gains control of the various Russian bureaucracies through sinister manipulation, cutting off the internet and other media when necessary.
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