Overview
- The documentary, built around John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s final interview at The Dakota, is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
- In a new interview, Steven Soderbergh says he used generative AI like traditional visual effects and not to fool viewers into thinking new footage or audio exists.
- He rejects the idea of “bringing John Lennon back to life” and says any AI imagery in the film is meant to read as artificial.
- Soderbergh says Lennon and Ono were strikingly open in the recorded conversation, so the film leans on archival audio and visuals over stylized inserts.
- He says he felt a moral duty to Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and the audience, and he adds that Sean told him his father would have wanted to experiment with new technology.