Nicolas Cage weighed in on the debate over the use of AI in movies, as well as had some critical words about his brief cameo in Warner Bros.’ The Flash, in a new interview published Wednesday.
On the subject of AI, the Renfield actor told Yahoo! Entertainment that he has a rather dim view of the technology.
“AI is a nightmare to me,” Cage said. “It’s inhumane. You can’t get more inhumane than artificial intelligence … I would be very unhappy if people were taking my art … and appropriating [it].”
Yet it wasn’t AI, Cage said, that was responsible for his cameo in last summer’s The Flash. The film envisioned a younger Cage as a multiverse version of Superman that inspired by Superman Lives — Tim Burton’s Man of Steel project that was famously canceled before it could get off the ground in 1998.
In The Flash, Cage’s Superman was fighting a large creature with red lasers coming out of his eyes. But the actor says this was very different from what he actually shot for The Flash.
“When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider,” Cage said. “I did not do that. That was not what I did. I don’t think it was [created by] AI. I know Tim [Burton] is upset about AI, as I am. It was CGI, OK, so that they could de-age me, and I’m fighting a spider. I didn’t do any of that, so I don’t know what happened there.”
That the 59-year-old actor was actually on set is a bit unexpected as many watching the film just assumed the entire performance was created by CG. Cage said what was actually filmed, and what he was told the scene would be, was something more solemn.
“What I was supposed to do was literally just be standing in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witnessing the destruction of the universe,” he said. “Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey. I had no dialogue [so I had to] convey with my eyes the emotion. So that’s what I did. I was on set for maybe three hours.”
Nonetheless, Cage added that he really liked director Andy Muschietti. “[Andy] is a terrific director, he is a great guy and a great director, and I loved his two It movies,” he said.
Cage is currently promoting his upcoming film, Dream Scenario, about a family man who finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. The film is getting strong reviews, with 91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Hollywood Reporter saying Cage “may have never been as flat-out hilarious as he is in Dream Scenario.” The film is released Nov. 10.
Clickbait – Nicholas even says he doesn’t believe it was AI. He said what he filmed for was completely different than what was shown in movie so they pretty much changed the script and CGd the shit out of the scene.
When they showed Nic Cage fighting the giant spider I was the only person in the theatre laughing and I was laughing way too hard. It was kind of embarrassing.
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Nicolas Cage weighed in on the debate over the use of AI in movies, as well as had some critical words about his brief cameo in Warner Bros.’ The Flash, in a new interview published Wednesday.
On the subject of AI, the Renfield actor told Yahoo! Entertainment that he has a rather dim view of the technology.
“AI is a nightmare to me,” Cage said. “It’s inhumane. You can’t get more inhumane than artificial intelligence … I would be very unhappy if people were taking my art … and appropriating [it].”
Yet it wasn’t AI, Cage said, that was responsible for his cameo in last summer’s The Flash. The film envisioned a younger Cage as a multiverse version of Superman that inspired by Superman Lives — Tim Burton’s Man of Steel project that was famously canceled before it could get off the ground in 1998.
In The Flash, Cage’s Superman was fighting a large creature with red lasers coming out of his eyes. But the actor says this was very different from what he actually shot for The Flash.
“When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider,” Cage said. “I did not do that. That was not what I did. I don’t think it was [created by] AI. I know Tim [Burton] is upset about AI, as I am. It was CGI, OK, so that they could de-age me, and I’m fighting a spider. I didn’t do any of that, so I don’t know what happened there.”
That the 59-year-old actor was actually on set is a bit unexpected as many watching the film just assumed the entire performance was created by CG. Cage said what was actually filmed, and what he was told the scene would be, was something more solemn.
“What I was supposed to do was literally just be standing in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witnessing the destruction of the universe,” he said. “Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey. I had no dialogue [so I had to] convey with my eyes the emotion. So that’s what I did. I was on set for maybe three hours.”
Nonetheless, Cage added that he really liked director Andy Muschietti. “[Andy] is a terrific director, he is a great guy and a great director, and I loved his two It movies,” he said.
Cage is currently promoting his upcoming film, Dream Scenario, about a family man who finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. The film is getting strong reviews, with 91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Hollywood Reporter saying Cage “may have never been as flat-out hilarious as he is in Dream Scenario.” The film is released Nov. 10.
Clickbait – Nicholas even says he doesn’t believe it was AI. He said what he filmed for was completely different than what was shown in movie so they pretty much changed the script and CGd the shit out of the scene.
When they showed Nic Cage fighting the giant spider I was the only person in the theatre laughing and I was laughing way too hard. It was kind of embarrassing.
https://youtu.be/Wo2KB1dEDdk
Agreed ! It kinda ruined the last Indiana Jones
Shitty title. Doesn’t match the article at all.
Geez these spam news sites have the worst written articles.