Overview
- Black Forest Labs released a video and statement showing Martin Scorsese as an adviser and using its FLUX generative‑AI model to create storyboards, a move the company announced on Tuesday, June 2.
- Scorsese said the tool felt “creatively freeing” and let him visualize and immediately share storyboards to save preproduction time without sacrificing quality.
- Multiple outlets report his use has been limited to previsualization and storyboarding rather than replacing actors, writers, cinematographers, or final creative control.
- Reports say Scorsese was introduced to Black Forest Labs through industry ties including Rick Yorn’s BroadLight Capital and Michael Ovitz, and there is no public confirmation he holds a financial stake.
- Black Forest Labs was founded in 2024 by researchers with ties to earlier image‑generation projects and the partnership is likely to boost investor interest while renewing industry concerns about consent, credit and pay first raised during the 2023 writers and actors strikes.