Matt Wolfe (speaker) argues that fully AI-generated movies without human actors are likely possible, but will form a distinct genre—similar to how Pixar-style 3D animation coexists with traditional hand-drawn Disney films. He predicts creators will produce AI-actor films as their own category while audiences will still value performances by human actors.
I think they will be able to make full movies without actors. But I think it's going to be like a genre you look at like Disney movies, right? For the longest time you had all of the Disney movies that were drawn by hand and animated the old fashioned way. And then Pixar came along and then we got this like 3D style of movies. Well, Disney didn't ditch the old style of movies and only make the 3D Pixar style movies, right? They still made Frozen and Moana and all these other movies long after Pixar came out. I think it's just going to be a different style of movie. I think creators will make movies and it'll be a big deal with the fact that they used like AI for it. And there'll be like its own genre of like movies that used AI actors. But I still think people are going to want to go and see talented actors act out their craft.
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