Jodie Foster has said she believes the Brad Pitt blockbuster F1 was made using AI, during a talk about the controversial technology.
The 2025 blockbuster starred Pitt as a once-promising driver recruited to save an ailing F1 team. The movie was not reported to have used any AI in the filmmaking process, but Foster believes it might have.
“I don’t say this disparagingly — how could I? This movie went on to make millions of dollars,” she prefaced during the Who Owns the Future of Hollywood? talk at Aspen Ideas Festival (via Deadline). “But I look at a movie like F1 and I’m like, ‘F1 was made by AI.’ Wasn’t it?”
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She explained: “I mean, the structure was exactly the structure that you would learn in school. The actors say the lines exactly the way it would be written if a computer was writing exactly what would be the right thing for that time. And they were able to dominate the technology to make something big and beautiful and potentially where a lot of the information comes from other places.”
The Oscar-winning actor and director used AI for dream sequences in her new film, A Private Life, and was pleased with what was created despite admitting the images “made no sense”. She added she felt that while it may be “getting rid of a lot of jobs” in Hollywood, it could be useful for “small helpful things” such as storyboarding.
AI has been a divisive topic in the creative industries, with everyone from Backrooms director Kane Parsons to Pope Leo XIV condemning the use of the technology. Martin Scorsese was criticised by The Art Directors Guild for promoting a generative AI firm. The organisation called AI “a betrayal of the collaborative nature of cinema,” and claimed Scorsese had “turned his back on artists”.