Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I.

stephen37

Martin Scorsese is backing Black Forest Labs, the company famous for FLUX models.

basisword

Easy to do when you're 83 and won't be around to suffer the consequences.

maplethorpe

Scorcese understands that Hollywood's ultimate limiting factor is the number of available actors. A finite pool of actors means a finite pool of movies. Removing this limitation means that, just like an AI image generator can generate any image imaginable, a future movie generator will be able to generate every movie imaginable, at the click of a button.

olivierestsage

I've noticed a tendency among people who have built careers known for visionary, forward-thinking work that they hesitate to make the natural move into more "conservative" positions/approaches as they age. This leads to missteps, because as one ages, one inevitably becomes further removed from the zeitgeist. On paper, embracing AI might seem like a great idea if you don't want to become an old fogey, but not all changes are positive and I doubt this decision will age well

Frieren

A.I. like in generating crowds, simulating physics, improving effects... or Large Language Models and Image Generation? AI means a lot of different things, I wish I could read the article.

elpocko

Awesome! The old man has better vision than most young filmmakers. The title is missing a period at the end; the embarassing HN title mutilator strikes again, I guess. You should use an LLM for that, it's much better suited to the task.

num42

Martin Scorsese x Black Forest Labs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4jl4htAcuM

thr0waway001

This is a recession indicator.

brettermeier

Giftet Link from Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/media/martin-sco... (Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1tur7ku/comment/opb... )

firefoxd

That's right. All their computers will have grammarly installed by default now. /jk Ai is too broad a term even when it comes to movies. Which part of the pipeline will include an AI tool? Or are we saying he is going to prompt Seedance to generate an entire movie?

hdndjsbbs

TFA says he's using it for storyboarding. This doesn't seem like a huge deal, but film is a visual medium! The closer your pre-viz and storyboarding looks to reality, the more you're going to tend to stick to it when you're actually filming. You want your rough drafts to have a roughness that conveys your level of confidence. If your AI first draft looks polished people may feel more pressure not to deviate. I find these hand-drawn Taxi Drivers storyboards very charming even though they obviously don't map cleanly to shots in the film. This is what you're giving up if you just tell an AI "give me a close up of Travis Bickle's face" https://boords.com/blog/martin-scorseses-hand-drawn-taxi-dri...

thatmf

> Martin Scorsese, the living embodiment of cinema as high art and a conscience for modern Hollywood That's some ChatGPT-level glazing. No one thinks this. Unless they also think that, like, Bob Dylan is the voice of Gen Z.

hopelessluca

My comment won't add anything meaningful to the discussion, but this does seem to validate the new AI slop being generated on YouTube and other social media platforms, with influencers starting a new wave under the motto. If Marty embraces it, why not us? /s

N1ckFG

An imo fascinating wrinkle that the article doesn't get into, Black Forest's main use case for their Flux models is "analytical" (modifying the user's pre-existing material, storyboards in this case) rather than "generative" (modifying stored material from the model's training corpus). In my experience with these tools so far, the analytical approach is more filmmaker-friendly, with image models fitting comfortably into well-established rendering and compositing roles. Meanwhile my current guess is that creative applications of the generative approach are going to end up looking a lot more like gamedev than filmmaking.