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Orson Welles Estate Slams AI Company’s Plan to Recreate Lost Scenes of ‘Magnificent Ambersons’: ‘Disappointing’ and an ‘Attempt to Generate Publicity’
The estate of Orson Welles calls it disappointing that Fable Studios' will reimagine lost footage of 'The Magnificent Ambersons' with AI technology.
The Orson Welles estate objects to AI startup Fable Studio ‘s plans to “reconstruct” lost footage of the director’s 1942 feature “ The Magnificent Ambersons,” which had 43 minutes cut from its released edition. On “Squawk Box,” Saatchi did not specify what Showrunner’s AI-generated “Ambersons” scenes would be using as a reference, as none of the cut footage from Welles’ original version is known to exist. “The Magnificent Ambersons,” Welles’ follow-up to “Citizen Kane,” was released to theaters in 1942 after a bitter battle in the editing room between the director and RKO Pictures execs.
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