Kim Sung-soo adapts Franz Kafka using artificial intelligence tools

Korean director Kim Sung-soo is making a short film titled Worm Train, which is inspired by the short story Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Deadline reported. Speaking on a panel hosted by Asian Contents and Film Market and Kling AI in Busan, Kim explained how he is using artificial intelligence tools to make the project. The story centres on a giant worm travelling to work on the subway. [1]

Filmmakers speaking on the Busan panel stated that artificial intelligence productions still require traditionally trained crew members, Deadline Film Adaptations and Deadline reported. The panellists emphasized that expert crews are necessary to prevent artificial intelligence generated films from looking identical. [1][2]

Kim has previously directed major Korean blockbuster films, including Asura: The City Of Madness and 12.12: The Day, Deadline reported. His latest project applies text to video models, which are generative artificial intelligence tools that take natural language descriptions as input to generate video content. [1][4]

Generative artificial intelligence models learn patterns from training data to produce new media, including images, video, and text, in response to natural language prompts. Filmmakers are testing these diffusion tools to determine how traditional film skills and cinematic techniques can be preserved in modern computer generated productions. [3][4]