{"id":23293,"date":"2026-05-29T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/like-a-billionaire-on-acid-star-wars-director-gareth-edwards-comes-out-in-favour-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:37:51","slug":"like-a-billionaire-on-acid-star-wars-director-gareth-edwards-comes-out-in-favour-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/like-a-billionaire-on-acid-star-wars-director-gareth-edwards-comes-out-in-favour-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like a billionaire on acid\u2019: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at Amazon\u2019s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said \u2018it\u2019ll do anything you ask\u2019 and \u2018it\u2019s going to be better than CGI\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying \u201cit is a fucking genius at helping you\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s going to be better than CGI\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was speaking at AI on the Lot, an event in Culver City, California, organised by Amazon, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/gareth-edwards-excited-ai-filmmaking-1236608376\/\">in remarks reported by the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> said: \u201cI can\u2019t see a reason why you wouldn\u2019t become interested in this stuff as a film-maker. It\u2019s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera. It\u2019s going to be better than CGI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/29\/star-wars-rogue-one-director-gareth-edwards-praises-ai-film-making\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9429f1be73dfdc2e32dcc42248fd742145c29225\/515_80_6082_4866\/master\/6082.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f68a3c9bba113d451e6344bcc463af9a\" title=\"\u2018Like a billionaire on acid\u2019: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI\" \/>Speaking at Amazon\u2019s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said \u2018it\u2019ll do anything you ask\u2019 and \u2018it\u2019s going to be better than CGI\u2019<br \/>\nJurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying \u201cit is a fucking genius at helping you\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s going to be better than CGI\u201d.<br \/>\nEdwards was speaking at AI on the Lot, an event in Culver City, California, organised by Amazon, and in remarks reported by the Hollywood Reporter said: \u201cI can\u2019t see a reason why you wouldn\u2019t become interested in this stuff as a film-maker. It\u2019s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera. It\u2019s going to be better than CGI.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at Amazon\u2019s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said \u2018it\u2019ll do anything you ask\u2019 and \u2018it\u2019s going to be better than CGI\u2019 Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying \u201cit is a fucking genius at helping &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/like-a-billionaire-on-acid-star-wars-director-gareth-edwards-comes-out-in-favour-of-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Like a billionaire on acid\u2019: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}