Maggie Gyllenhaal Rejects AI Recreation of Marilyn Monroe for Venice Short
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal chose not to use artificial intelligence to digitally recreate Marilyn Monroe for her Venice Film Festival short, “Flesh Impact.” Instead, she relied on live performances from Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn to portray the icon at age 100.
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How Maggie Gyllenhaal Used Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn to Reimagine Marilyn Monroe at 100 in Venice Short ‘Flesh Impact’
Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year. So when Maggie Gyllenhaal was approached to make a movie about her, she asked for a weekend to daydream about what that milestone might look like. What came back was “Flesh Impact,” a 17-minute short that hands the most consumed movie star of the 20th century something […]
By Clayton Davis
Read full article →Maggie Gyllenhaal Was Asked to Use AI to Recreate Marilyn Monroe. But it Flopped Compared to Dakota Johnson
The Venice Film Festival jury president said her AI experiment "fundamentally did not work. All the reasons we decided to make this project to begin with were killed off in the AI version."
By Chris Gardner
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