An AI version of Milton’s Paradise Lost is fundamentally unworthy of one of the great works of art
The thing about unfilmable works of literature is that most of them eventually turn out to be quite filmable after all. The Lord of the Rings was a bit of a mess when shot in rotoscope on a minuscule budget by the guy who filmed Fritz the Cat; it won Oscars when handed to Peter Jackson, given the GDP of a small nation and a visual effects department the size of Gondor. The 1984 version of Dune was a disappointment, despite the presence of David Lynch in the director’s chair, largely because all that gleaming, tawdr
Perhaps there really will come a day where we can walk into our front room and switch on a bespoke AI Netflix movie, starring a slightly better-looking version of you or I solving problems neither of us have ever had, in which every line lands, all arcs resolve and nothing ever risks surprising anyone, ever.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-05-05
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