Marvel has denied that it used AI to craft a new poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, despite some fans raising suspicions.On Tuesday (February 4), the first trailer for the upcoming entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was released, causing many fans to overflow with excitement and asking, “Is Marvel back?”.The film stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn as the titular quartet, a group of superpowered scientists that are being incorporated into the MCU for the first time.Along with the trailer, the film’s initial poster was also shared on Tuesday, and some fans have speculated that the studio might have employed artificial intelligence in its design.
Among causes of the suspicions are a character apparently sporting four fingers instead of five and two characters with the same replicated face.See the poster here:The Wrap reached out to Marvel representatives for a reaction to the backlash, and the studio confirmed that AI was not used in the poster’s creation.The film is due to be released on July 25 and has been made possible by Marvel’s parent company Disney acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019.
Directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision), the Fantastic Four are forced to protect their 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic world from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus (Ralph Ineson).The rising use of AI in the entertainment industry continues to be highly contentious, with The Brutalist director Brady Corbet recently defending his film against a backlash after it emerged that it used AI to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian accents.“Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own,” he explained. “They worked for months with.
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