The short movies try to track specific days on the calendar to those of 250 years ago, will run through the year, and are made by Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup, with himself executive producing.
It would be ridiculously expensive to make the sets, hire extras and put them all in time-corrected garb for a two-minute short, so this is one of the few places where AI might make sense — not to mention recreating historical figures.
The film shorts aren’t all «AI slop,» though, as they use unionized voice actors for all speech.
Two episodes are already up. The movies are made with the help of Salesforce and distributed by Time Studios, a subsidiary of Salesforce.
Read more: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Gizmodo.