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Ellison believes that AI is going to allow Paramount to do the same with live-action movies. He didn’t go into detail about the process but what I gathered from his explanation was that, let’s say you make Top Gun 3. Well, you can have AI turn the script into a movie right away. You can even have Tom Cruise come in and record all the lines in the way he wants to say them. And then you can test that movie. And, if it sucks, you can then start rewriting it, just like they do at Pixar.

Once you have the perfect movie, you go and actually shoot it. And you just do exactly what the proven AI movie did. So it’s kind of like an advanced version of pre-viz.
