Overview
- This week Scorsese appears in a Black Forest Labs video showing him use the startup’s AI tools to generate and tweak storyboard images for pre-production.
- He frames the tech as a planning aid that lets him iterate visual ideas faster and communicate shots to camera, design and art departments rather than put AI images in finished films.
- Black Forest Labs is a southern German startup and reporting says investors Michael Ovitz and Rick Yorn introduced Scorsese to the company.
- The video and reports prompted immediate criticism from storyboard artists and others worried the tools could replace jobs, and no public details have been released about payment or equity for Scorsese.
- The move ties into a longer Hollywood debate about AI after the 2023 strikes and a 2025 open letter on copyright, and it could reshape how directors and crews work during planning and on set.