Overview
- A U.K. casting notice states producers may reprocess performances using generative AI and machine learning to adjust lip, facial and body movements, with identifiable digital replicas requiring prior written consent.
- Language suggesting actors might share scenes with AI-generated performers was included in error, and the production says all on-screen roles will be played by human actors.
- Production in the U.K. is preparing to shoot on a markerless performative capture stage, with all backgrounds and locations created using AI rather than on-location filming.
- Producer Ryan Kavanaugh says the tools are intended to refine takes without reshoots, increase efficiency and maintain jobs across departments.
- The disclosure arrives as SAG-AFTRA and the U.K.’s Equity focus on consent, compensation and likeness protections for synthetic uses in ongoing negotiations.