Overview
- Scorsese was announced as an adviser to Black Forest Labs on Tuesday and the company released a video showing him using its FLUX generative-AI to produce storyboards during preproduction.
- The director said the tool was "creatively freeing" and helped his team move faster without sacrificing craft while he framed the move as an extension of prior technical work such as 3D in Hugo and de‑aging in The Irishman.
- Black Forest Labs was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach and markets FLUX as a ‘visual intelligence’ model for entertainment and design; the partnership was brokered through industry connections including Rick Yorn and Michael Ovitz.
- Reporting says it remains unclear whether Scorsese has any financial stake in the company, and Black Forest Labs did not immediately clarify his investment status.
- The announcement has drawn sharp criticism from storyboard artists and other creators who say AI could displace jobs and raise questions about training data, authorship and credits that unions and studios are still negotiating.