{"id":395855,"date":"2025-11-22T01:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:25:12","slug":"rian-johnson-says-ai-makes-everything-worse-in-every-conceivable-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395855\/","title":{"rendered":"Rian Johnson says AI makes “Everything worse in every conceivable way”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFuck AI.\u201d So speaketh Rian Johnson, who\u2019s currently on the press tour for his new Netflix mystery film\u00a0Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Echoing comments<\/a> from his friend\u2014and fellow Netflix collaborator\u2014Guillermo Del Toro, Johnson did not mince words on the topic of artificial intelligence\u2019s encroachment into Hollywood. \u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s making everything worse in every single way\u2014I don\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2014leaning into a new\u00a0THR\u00a0profile\u2019s portrait of him<\/a> as a guy who understands filmmaking\u2019s economic underpinnings, without making himself beholden to them\u2014then clarified: \u201cI mean, I get it in a \u2018This makes sense to save money by not paying artists\u2019 way.\u2019 But then, what the fuck are we doing? Is this where we want to be?\u201d<\/p>\n

As the profile itself notes, this blunt opposition to AI puts Johnson at odds with at least a few of his frequent collaborators\u2014notably Natasha Lyonne, who he worked with on two seasons of Peacock\u2019s Poker Face before the show got canceled a week ago<\/a> (along with news that Johnson was hoping to resurrect it somewhere else with a new star\u2014although Lyonne would stay on as a producer). Given that one of the other thrusts of the THR\u00a0piece is that Johnson is a genuinely nice guy, he didn\u2019t say anything about Lyonne\u2019s embrace of AI production techniques<\/a>, but it\u2019s clear he\u2019s not on the same page as the (now former) Charlie Cale.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Johnson reveals that he\u2019s ready to get back into theaters, after a two-film run living in a Netflix world where limited theatrical runs are doled out, basically, as a treat to keep directors happy. (Even here, Johnson is notably diplomatic, saying, \u201cThe temptation is to frame it as \u2018us against Netflix\u2019 or something. It\u2019s not that at all. It sounds a little bit like corporate speak, but it\u2019s also just the reality: You\u2019re in the boat with the person you got on the boat with. You\u2019ve got to kind of start rowing.\u201d)<\/p>\n