Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi abbreviated titled Nightborne that's loosely based connected Peter Watts' 2014 caller Echopraxia. The abbreviated comes from Blomkamp's caller AI startup / accumulation company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled aft quality actors. But each azygous 1 of Nightborne's shots was made with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator.

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