Curious Refuge, a video production company, created an AI-generated trailer of a Wes Anderson-directed Star Wars film, named The Galactic Menagerie. The project aimed to examine how AI tools could be used in the filmmaking context. It was created using an AI image generator, Midjourney, to produce the visuals and ChatGPT, an AI language model, to write the script. The trailer was edited by the director, Caleb Ward, who described himself as having played a supporting role, with AI being the director.
Ward asked ChatGPT to write the script whenever it was needed. Ward was inspired by the success of Harry Potter by Balenciaga videos, an AI-generated series of Harry Potter clips that went viral in April. The Galactic Menagerie trailer was viewed almost 2 million times on Twitter and 1 million times on YouTube since its release on 29 April, prompting thousands of retweets and comments.
