Friday, a startup called Fable Announced An ambitious, if scratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of the classic film by Orson Welles “The Amaberson entity.”

Because it is a startup that is based as “Netflix of ai” and recently Collected money from the Alexa fund of AmazonSpeaking of redoing a film that was published for the first time in 1942?

Well, the company has created a platform that allows users to create their cartoons with the AI ​​prompts: Fable is starting with its intellectual property, but has Ambitions to offer similarities with Hollywood IP. In fact, it has already been used to create “South Park” episodes.

Now Fable is launching a new artificial intelligence model that can assume generating a long narrative complex. In the next two years, director Brian Rose – who already has Five years spipes Working to digitally reconstruct Welles’ original vision – provides for using that model to redo the movie lost by “The Magnifiment Amabersons”.

Notable, Fable did not get the right to the film, making it a future technological demo that will probably never be released to the public.

Why “both both? If you are not a welles lover cinephile, I imagine you look like a dark choice for digital resurrection.

Even among fans of classic films, Welles’s second film is obscured by the oldest and most famous brother. While “Citizen Kane” is often called the greatest film ever made, “both is Remembered as a lost masterpiece That the study took off the director’s hand, cutting it drastically and adding an unconvincing Hapy ending.

The reputation of the film – the sense of loss and what could have been – is presumably what interests are made and increased. But it is worth stressing that the only reason why we dye ourselves with “the Amac Entity” today is because of Welles – because of how he made his career of Hollywood derail and how also in his reduced form, he still reveals so much of his film genius.

This makes it even more surprising that the fairy tale apparently has not been able to reach Welles’ estate. David Reeder, who manages the estate for Welles Beatrice’s daughter, Described the variety project As “attempt to generate advertising on the back of the creative genius of Welles” and said it will love nothing but “a purely mechanical exercise without any only innovative thoughts [of] A creative force like Welles. “

Despite Reeder’s criticism, it seems less upset by the idea of ​​trying to recreate “both and more by the fact that the estate was not” even given the courtesy of a warning “. After all, he observed, “The estate embraced the AI ​​technology to create a vocal model destined to be used for the vo work with the brands”.

I’m not so open. Also If Welles’ heirs were consulted and compensated, I would not have had an interest in this new “both” both, just as I have no interest in hearing a digital simulacrum of the legendary voice of Welles used to fail new products.

Now, Welles fans know that this is not the first time that other filmmakers have tried to do it Correct posthumous gold end His films. But at least those in the same way used films that Welles had shot alone. In the meantime, Fable describes its planned approach as a hybrid of AI and the traditional moviemaking – apparently some scenes will be reshot with contemporary actors who will make faces will therefore be awakened for digital recreation of the original cast.

Despite the absurdity to announce a project like this without the cinematographic rights or the wound of Welles ‘daughter, at least Rose seems to be motivated by the genuine desire to honor Welles’ vision. For example, in A Stattement on why he wants to recreate the filmRose cried the destruction of “an uninterrupted four -minute moving camera, whose loss is a tragedy”, with only 50 seconds of shot remaining in the recovery film.

I share its sense of loss, but I also believe that this is a tragedy that the IA cannot cancel.

It does not matter how convincingly fairy tale and pink can be able to put together their own version of that monitoring shot, it will be They Shot, not Welles, daughter with Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead’s Frankensted Replicas, not the actors themselves. Their final product will not be the version of Welles of “The Magnifiment Amabersons” that Rko destroyed more than 80 years ago. Exclude Miraculous rediscovery of the lost movieThat version has disappeared forever.