Roger Avary plans AI-powered film adaptation of Paradise Lost

9 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 5

Avary, the Pulp Fiction co-writer and director of Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction, aims to turn Milton’s 17th-century epic on Satan’s fall and original sin into a feature.
The project would use artificial intelligence to create large-scale cosmic spectacle, potentially reducing the need for extensive visual-effects crews and lowering production costs.
The plan comes amid continuing debate over AI’s artistic limits, authorship and jobs, with fully AI-made films still largely dependent on human curation and editing.

As AI slashes film costs, are we entering a new golden age of creativity or an era of mass-produced 'formula slop'?

Can AI truly capture the 'soul' of an epic poem, or will it just generate a soulless, technically perfect spectacle?