"The Lord of the Rings was a bit of a mess when shot in rotoscope on a minuscule budget by the guy who filmed Fritz the Cat; it won Oscars when handed to Peter Jackson, given the GDP of a small nation and a visual effects department the size of Gondor."
"Milton's Paradise Lost? The 17th-century epic poem has always felt like an outlier, a work of literature too religiously inspired to be filmed purely as a work of fantasy, yet too riotously bonkers to be treated with puritanical reverence."
"It's a strange time, possibly a politically injudicious time, to be announcing that you're about to hand over the most epic story ever written to this particular technology."
Unfilmable literary works often become successful films, as seen with adaptations like The Lord of the Rings and Dune. The 2021 Dune adaptation was praised for its restraint and scale. Milton's Paradise Lost, a complex epic poem, is now being considered for adaptation by Roger Avary using AI technology. This raises concerns about the artistic quality of AI-generated content and its implications for authorship and creativity in filmmaking.
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