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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
This is a bad idea.
Remarkably, Fable has not obtained the rights to the film, making this a prospective tech demo that will probably never be released to the general public. But it’s worth emphasizing that the only reason we care about “The Magnificent Ambersons” today is because of Welles — because of how it derailed his Hollywood career, and how even in its diminished form, it still reveals so much of his filmmaking genius. Fable, meanwhile, describes the approach it plans as a hybrid of AI and traditional filmmaking — apparently some scenes will be reshot with contemporary actors whose faces will be then swapped for digital recreations of the original cast.
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