Watch the full AI-generated trailer for a Wes Anderson Star Wars movie

Wes Anderson’s aesthetic seems to have fully colonized the minds of people experimenting with AI art generation. Users of AI artbot Midjourney created a long series of images that went viral in December. AlienYou can also find out more about the following: The Shining The following are some of the ways to get in touch with us: GremlinsWes Anderson directed the film. Now, the self-described “bunch a goofballs” at the Curious Refuge course-development website have taken that idea to the next step by creating an entire trailer for a theoretical Wes Anderson Star Wars movie, The Galactic Menagerie – A Star Wars Story.

The trailer is an improvement on the original image. imagining Wes Anderson’s Star Wars: The movement here is minimal, and it’s mostly just a collection of the same kind of stills that took off in December. Once again, though, Anderson’s visual style proves a perfect target for this kind of pastiche, because his own movies actually often do take this kind of approach, with fixed images or lists of cast members. Look at how similar the images in the trailer of his new film are. Asteroid City are almost still images — although his trailers do typically feature a lot more dialogue than the ersatz Star Wars trailer.)

The Curious Refuge Trailer does show a new level of ambition in AI art, but it also shows the direction in which the field is moving. It seems that there are controversies in this rapidly evolving area almost every day. AI art is causing significant legal concerns. The U.S. has filed a lawsuit against AI artbots and a group of developers. Copyright Office declaring that AI art can’t be copyrighted — so anyone could potentially take these pastiches and claim or use them as their own. The step up from individual images to movie trailers might be a different story, since the editing and voiceover involved in a trailer suggests the “human authorship” that the Copyright Office found lacking in individual images.

Just being able to copyright a video doesn’t necessarily mean profiting from it, though. The social media reactions to Galactic Menagerie trailer have been decidedly mixed, with some responses praising the ideas, images, and especially the fantasy casting, while others have dismissed it as proof that AI isn’t replacing real writers and directors anytime soon.

This isn’t the first full “in the style of Wes Anderson” trailer: YouTube creators have been making similar projects for years, without the benefit of AI art. Anderson’s distinctive deadpan line delivery, pastel color palettes, specific fonts in a distinctive bright yellow, and precision-focused set decoration have made him a favorite target for “what if” movie pastiches for the last decade, from re-edit artists to original content creators to Saturday Night Live.