‘Pulp Fiction’ Co-Writer Roger Avary Announces He’s Using AI to Create 3 New Feature Films

In what is becoming the greatest existential crisis the filmmaking world has perhaps ever faced, the controversy, excitement, and debilitating anxiety surrounding the AI revolution are reaching new heights as we’ve seen some major generative AI video models breakthroughs in the past weeks.

From Kling 3.0 to Seedance 2.0, some of the most recent AI video models have brought the debates surrounding the future of “AI filmmaking” to the forefront once again, and a new voice is suddenly on the scene championing an indie AI filmmaking revolution to the masses on the Joe Rogan podcast.

Roger Avary, best known as the co-writer of Pulp Fiction and host of The Video Archives Podcast, has become an unlikely champion of indie AI filmmaking as he’s announced that he has not one, but three AI-driven projects in production and has shared some inciting thoughts on the future of the industry.

Massive AI Studios

So, the first piece of news here is that Avary has announced on his social channels that his technology company, General Cinema Dynamic,s has partnered with AI film studio Massive AI Studios. Along with the announcement of this partnership, Avary has shared that he has “three features in active production.”

From further interviews, specifically one with Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience, Avary has expanded on these projects and how he was able to get them off the ground for the first time by simply putting “AI in front of it, and all of a sudden, you’re in production on three features.”

Avary has further shared that these films will be a faith-based feature, a family Christmas movie, and a romantic war epic.

Is AI Indie Filmmaking?

Now, while this is a much bigger and deeper existential debate than we can perhaps tackle here in this article, it’s hard to understate how seismic-ly the industry is shifting under our feet.

Yet, while Avary might be a nice example of a true cinefile using a new technology to help democratize and bring projects to life which likely would never had found funding or development, it’s also perhaps one of the most perilous hills to die on for a champion of independent filmmaking too as AI could also be the end of traditional filmmaking methods as we know them.

At the very least, we’re all curious to see if announcements like these actually lead to any meaningful results or are just more headline cash-ins that spark debate, but don’t offer much meaningful movement for these new technologies.