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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dan Milmo and Andrew Pulver

‘It’s over for us’: release of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood

Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in June 2025.
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in June 2025. Photograph: Samir Hussein/WireImage

A leading Hollywood figure has warned “it’s likely over for us”, after watching a widely disseminated AI-generated clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting.

Rhett Reese, co-writer of Deadpool & Wolverine, Zombieland and Now You See Me: Now You Don’t was reacting to a 15-second video showing Cruise and Pitt trading punches on a rubble-strewn bridge, posted by Irish film-maker Ruairí Robinson, director of 2013 sci-fi horror The Last Days on Mars. Reposting the clip on social media, Reese wrote: “I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”

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