However, Perry did report he did not feel “any pressure to use” AI. But the unfinished studio expansion had already taken four years until he paused its construction. Meanwhile, AI saved Perry from sitting “through hours of aging makeup” and subsequently removed the need to hire a makeup artist. Perry was in the middle of building an additional 12 soundstages to a 330-acre property he owns for future film projects. Now, the director has already used AI in two of his films that have yet to be released.
“I no longer would have to travel to locations. If I wanted to be in the snow in Colorado, it’s text. If I wanted to write a scene on the moon, it’s text, and this AI can generate it like nothing,” Perry said. “If I wanted to have two people in the living room in the mountains, I don’t have to build a set in the mountains, I don’t have to put a set on my lot. I can sit in an office and do this with a computer, which is shocking to me.”