Overview
- Variety obtained a U.K. casting notice saying Doug Liman’s Bitcoin biopic may use generative AI to adjust lip, facial and body movements and will shoot on a markerless performative capture stage rather than on location.
- The notice states producers can reprocess performances with AI or machine learning but will not create a recognizable digital replica of an actor’s voice or likeness without prior written consent.
- Producer Ryan Kavanaugh said the film will use only performance capture AI and will not feature AI-generated actors that do not exist, characterizing the tools as efficiency aids that preserve jobs.
- A production source told Variety that mentions of AI actors in the notice were included in error and said AI will be used to generate backgrounds and to tweak performances instead of ordering reshoots.
- The project stars Pete Davidson and Casey Affleck, is directed by Liman from a script by Nick Schenk, is financed by Proxima with Aperture Media Partners, and is preparing to shoot in the U.K. with supporting roles casting through March.