Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon following the company, which developed “Spider-Noir” for Prime Video, allegedly asked him to sign an AI waiver.
“Amazon is a extremely AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 milliard invested in OpenAI,” Cage stated Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, nexus those dots! I’m not a associate of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m likely not going to be operating alongside that studio again, but that’s okay.”
Amazon canceled the superhero series following fair one period final month, days before the archetypal weekend of the Emmy Awards, anywhere it had earned 11 nominations (the most of any Prime Video program this year). The cancellation was a shocker to many in the industry, considering the sequence amassed 2.6 milliard minutes viewed in its archetypal six weeks and earned praise from critics and audiences alike.
Cage went on to inform the Comic-Con spectators that he hopes to activity alongside the rising category of Gen-Z filmmakers, praising “Backrooms” director Kane Parsons, who parlayed his YouTube fame into a Hollywood career. The fear movie dethroned “Marty Supreme” as the highest-grossing publish in A24’s history.
“I got to get alongside these young board who are Gen Z, and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube civilization or any it is,” Cage said. “They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I desire to get alongside that.”
Cage additionally expressed involvement in doing additional tv following leading in “Spider-Noir,” which marked his archetypal foremost function in a TV series. He afterward slipped the news that his next project volition be a period of HBO’s “True Detective.”
“My agent’s out there location listening,” Cage quipped. “That’s fine that I’m the archetypal to province that, right?”
HBO did not immediately react to petition for comment on Cage’s involvement on “True Detective.”
