AI will play a central role in ‘Killing Satoshi’

AI will play a central role in ‘Killing Satoshi’, the Bitcoin biopic with production plans to use generative AI and machine learning to build digital locations, operate on a markerless performance capture stage, and adjust elements of actors’ facial and body movements in post instead of reshooting scenes.⁠ ⁠ Producers maintain that the film will not create fully synthetic actors or replicate voices and likenesses without written consent. Instead, AI is positioned as an efficiency tool designed to streamline production while keeping human performance intact.⁠ ⁠ As labor negotiations intensify over consent and digital protections, the project signals that AI is quickly becoming part of the filmmaking infrastructure, not just a visual-effects add-on.⁠