When the robots finally conquer Earth, it seems one of the first things they will be coming for is your slightly scratched boxset of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. And why not? Who wouldn’t want to see Frodo and his gang reimagined by AI “film-makers” in the style of Wes Anderson or Pixar?
Well, as it turns out, most of us, even if the animated versions of our favourite hobbit adventurers are pretty cute. Over on Instagram, you can now find the “cast” of Pixar’s take on Lord of the Rings (don’t worry, it’s not real), thanks to an AI named Midjourney. I do wonder if a few Disney Animation stills were fed into the machine by mistake, though, because Aragorn and Arwen in particular look like they’ve been dragged from the worlds of Tangled and Frozen rather than Toy Story or Up. Come on Midjourney, you’re never going to convince Miles Dyson to help destroy humanity if you can’t tell the difference between the two Disney-owned studios!
