The filmmakers behind it The brutalistA likely Oscar nominee currently distributed by A24 used AI to alter the actor’s dialogue and create images used in the film’s epilogue, the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó said an interview with RedShark news.
The epic drama follows a fictional Hungarian architect (played by Adrien Brody) who struggles to make art under the capricious system of American capitalism (and the madmen who run it). To make Brody and his co-star Felicity Jones’ Hungarian pronunciation as accurate as possible, Jancsó says the production used AI from a company called Rep change the actor’s speech.
Respeecher was able to adjust the actor’s voice to match the pronunciation of a native Hungarian speaker, although Jancsó says this process did nothing that couldn’t be achieved with traditional dialogue editing. “You can do this yourself in ProTools, but we had so many dialogues in Hungarian that we really had to speed up the process or we would still be in post.”
According to Jancsó, generative AI was also used to create architectural drawings that were used towards the end of the film. Both decisions were made due to the budget constraints the production faced. The brutalist According to reports, it is a three-hour-plus multi-star film with period costumes and lavish sets made for less than $10 million.
Just over a year after several Hollywood unions went on strike Given the possibility of studios using AI to replace workers, using the technology is still extremely controversial, let alone being open about it. But the problem is undeniably complicated, given that there are so many different uses for AI. “The goal was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in a different language, not to replace or alter them, and to do so with the utmost respect for the craft,” said Brady Corbet, the director of The brutalist, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.
Previously Respeecher was used to create a new Darth Vader dialogue for Disney+ Obi Wan Kenobi, And this probably won’t be the last time similar tools are used to reduce costs. Creating films requires a lot of resources, and as companies try to make AI a breakthrough, using AI tools will likely continue to be a viable option to save time and money.
