🧠 Martin Scorsese Joins AI Startup as Creative Advisor

The Academy Award winner announced that he is already actively deploying the company’s flagship neural network, FLUX, to generate digital storyboards during the pre-production phase of his upcoming film projects.

According to the 83-year-old director, throughout his 70-year career, he has always faced a complex challenge: how to translate what he mentally visualizes in his head to the actors and crew as precisely as possible. Utilizing AI tools allows him to instantaneously generate scene sketches and share them with the director of photography, costume designer, and producers.

Scorsese emphasized that cinema is a young art form, just over 125 years old, and therefore the industry must remain open to evolution. The filmmaker has previously experimented with technology, leveraging the 3D format in Hugo and digital de-aging for the cast of The Irishman.

With this appointment, Martin Scorsese cements his status as one of Hollywood’s leading proponents of technological progress, aligning himself with James Cameron, who joined the board of directors at Stability AI last autumn.

Nevertheless, attitudes toward AI within the filmmaking community remain polarized; for instance, Guillermo del Toro has previously spoken out sharply against integrating neural networks into the creative process, calling the automation of initial idea generation “an insult to God.”