AI will and is replacing background actors and set designers and those that build sets and lighting and sound.
You just need to be able to describe a scene and in minutes see the result.
More time to get the detail right.
Writers look to already be using software that has generic scenes as the tv and movie plots have the sameness, similar to the music industry now.
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Kim
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-kJESXrHut0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxTkEWtR8Zs
Rooster vs Baby
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SxEk3FUKWZY
POOF | AI Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SgA6ymPuc
Examples from VEO by Google showing how detail AI images are getting to the real thing.
https://deepmind.google/models/veo/?utm_source=ai.google&utm_medium=referral
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - 1950s Super Panavision 70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAtAv04dd4
LoL at the first set of your links. Indeed it is a conundrum. But the limitations of AI do become apparent with those most acquainted with it I think…
Tapping into nostalgia may prove to be extremely profitable in the coming years…as a sort of a backlash.