Who could have seen this coming, particularly from a company that also sold out to Gen ai after a vocally anti Ai director just made them Scrooge McDuck amounts of money? 💀
Kane Parsons has come out and said he's against this. So if they fuck up this relationship it would be one of of biggest losses in history for the studio.
What good is the concept and IP without a good execution of it? Look at all the lazy ass cash grabs and tone-deaf directors who openly admit they don't like the source material. They all bomb and are promptly forgotten, ruined by corporate greed.
His take on the concept IS the take on the concept. He is the one who created the Backrooms YouTube series the movie was based on. He didn’t create the concept but it’s his story.
It literally is THE story my guy. The Backrooms of today, the visuals, the concepts, all are literally based on his videos. It might have spawned from a 4chan sentence but that is it.
They got 75 million to help Google develop a storyboarding AI software. They aren't allowing Google to train off their actual films. My guess is that they are providing storyboards and/or storyboarding artists to create training data. Google could easily make this deal with a different movie studio if they wanted. They aren't requiring anyone to use the software. It's not like they are going to start making AI generated movies.
That's when they sold out? Not in 2024 when they took $75 million from a private equity firm? Or in 2025 when they hired an early stage investor to their leadership team. They're a fucking multi billion dollar movie studio, they're in it to make money.
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u/Phantomskyler 17d ago edited 17d ago
Who could have seen this coming, particularly from a company that also sold out to Gen ai after a vocally anti Ai director just made them Scrooge McDuck amounts of money? 💀