Will audiences accept a fully AI generated blockbuster by 2035

[Sophie86]

AI generated video is already improving at a genuinely rapid pace. And the honest question worth asking is not whether a fully AI generated feature length film becomes technically possible within the next decade, since that seems very likely, but whether audiences actually accept and pay for one the way they currently do for traditionally produced films.

The technical trajectory suggests something like this arrives well before 2035. Probably starting with genuinely low budget experimental releases that get real festival attention specifically for the novelty, before the technology matures enough that a major studio attempts something with genuine mainstream commercial ambition behind it.

The harder question is audience acceptance, since film going has always been partly about knowing real actors performed real emotions under real direction. And it is genuinely unclear whether that emotional investment survives once audiences know nothing on screen was actually performed by anyone at all.

A likely middle path is hybrid production becoming the actual dominant model rather than either fully human or fully AI generated content winning outright. Real actors and directors using AI heavily for background elements, crowd scenes, environments and cost saving visual effects work, while keeping human performance at the actual emotional center of a story.

Curious what people here think audiences actually tolerate, whether a fully AI generated film could genuinely move people the way traditional filmmaking does. Or whether something essential gets lost the moment audiences know there was no actual human performance behind what they are watching on screen

[Caitlin_69]

Think the hybrid model wins out long term, audiences seem to want human performance at the emotional core even if they do not mind AI handling background elements or cost heavy visual effects work. Would not bet against it