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Could AI bring Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne back to our screens?

Late stars of yesteryear like Marilyn Monroe may grace the silver screen may be one way Hollywood seeks to use AI in film, but ethical qualms and legal disputes are aplenty.

By Daniel Gervais, 360info
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Marilyn Monroe, pictured in the 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle, could return to our screens via AI | Macfadden Publications, Wikimedia Commons | Credits: Public domain

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Imagine, for a moment, Marilyn Monroe cast as the Julia Roberts character in a remake of Pretty Woman, or John Wayne playing the bad guy in a Quentin Tarantino take on the western.

Hollywood is on the cusp of a cinematic revolution that could see these long-dead legends return to the big screen in new roles by 2028 thanks in large part to advancements in Large Language Models. 

The 2023 Hollywood strikes highlighted concern among writers and actors about their existential future in the industry — a sentiment echoed by Zeke Alton of the The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) negotiating committee, who said studios were forcing workers to "negotiate and bargain for our very existence".

OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model is a milestone in proving the feasibility of converting scripts directly into visual stories without human intervention. 

While AI-driven scripts and movies ma

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