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...

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.

Giftet Link from Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/business/media/martin-sco...

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Martin Scorsese x Black Forest Labs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4jl4htAcuM

> 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.

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

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?

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

This is a recession indicator.

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

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.

gross

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.

Why would anyone want that? I don't want infinite movies, I don't have infinite time. I'd rather have intent over quantity. There is already an abundance of content, a century of cinema. Who actually wants this and why?

I HIGHLY doubt that's his POV. Almost all directors, and he has said this himself many times, think of actors as collaborators and their performances as an essential part of the movie.

There is absolutely not a shortage of actors.

There's a shortage of actors that you can star in movies to sell enough tickets to justify making $200m movies that have traditionally been the backbone of studio profits.

The studios probably killed themselves going all-in balls-to-the wall on making the exact same blockbuster movie 12 times a year, every year, for 25 years straight.

It is a refreshing breath of relief to see all the Indie stuff absolutely killing it as of late, and the Action Hero movies consistently underperforming studio expectations by a mile.

I don't think anyone living in LA would claim there's a shortage of actors.

Instead of using AI actors, couldn't we address Hollywood's actor shortage some other way?

For example, we could tap the federal Strategic Actor Reserve, or import actors from actor-rich countries such as France and Belgium.

What does this random sentiment have to do with the article, which is about him using a particular tool for storyboarding, which is a process of communicating a vision to a range of human contributors?

Wouldn’t that devalue movies, though? For the consumer is great, but for the people in the industry… I guess it doesn’t sound that great?

There is not a shortage of actors.

There is a huge surplus of actors.