Hollywood Reckons With AI's Creative Takeover

A viral AI-generated fight scene featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt has reignited Hollywood's existential crisis over artificial intelligence. Screenwriters like Rhett Reese and Paul Schrader warn that one talented person with AI could soon produce a full feature film indistinguishable from studio releases. Yet resistance is quietly crumbling. Writers privately admit using AI for research and plotting, filmmakers see it as democratising big-budget storytelling, and even the 2023 Hollywood strikes couldn't fully contain it. As AI-assisted novels proliferate, the line between tool and replacement grows increasingly blurred.