A brand new AI-focused venture could also be coming to film screens — centered on a plot by which human creativity is preventing a shedding battle towards the robots.
“I AM AI,” a Hugo Award-nominated novelette written by Ai Jiang, has been optioned for a feature-length movie venture. The 2023 title, printed by Shortwave Publishing and likewise nominated for Nebula and Locus awards, sees a cyborg named “Ai” who poses as an AI writing device for purchasers within the fictional metropolis of Emit in a bid to repay money owed, restore her waning battery and eliminate her human coronary heart. However when an precise AI device, known as “I AM AI,” launches underneath the guise of being sooner and cheaper, Ai dangers literal burnout in a bid to show the worth of her human core towards a machine.
Hooked up to the venture are actor and producer Matthias Schweighöfer, who performed Warner Heisenberg in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and appeared in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” and producer Sascha Rosemann, who helped develop the 2023 Sky present “Unwanted.”
It’s unclear which studios could also be circling the venture, although it comes as AI-related tasks have proliferated throughout content material platforms lately. The ultimate seasons of “The Comeback” and “Hacks” this yr each dealt extensively with AI, whereas Joseph Gordon-Levitt is nearing a manufacturing wrap on his AI-focused thriller starring Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Joel Edgerton and extra for Netflix.
“’I AM Al’ is inspired by my time working as a ghost writer, reflecting on burnout and toxic productivity, and the dangers of not having proper work-life balance,” Jiang mentioned in a press release. “It’s also a story about connection and disconnection, and the power of art. I’m extremely excited to see how Matthias Schweighöfer and Sascha Rosemann will approach the novelette’s adaptation to screen and know it’s in great hands!”
Jiang is repped by Orly Greenburg at UTA. Jiang and Shortwave Publishing may also publish via Simon & Schuster’s “Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost,” a group of 40 sci-fi, horror and different speculative quick tales (together with “I AM AI“) subsequent yr.
