Was Found Guilty made with artificial intelligence?

Chris Pratt’s funny revelation.

How far will artificial intelligence go? The question already haunts cinema, and not just on screen.

Cédric Jimenez had filmed a future where the police relied on sprawling technology in Dog 51. Today, Found Guilty is in the same vein and imagines a society where justice would be rendered… by an AI.

But was the film also made with the help of artificial intelligence?

The subject is in any case debated in Hollywood. Chris Pratt recently told Entertainment Weekly that he had proposed a radical idea for his new science fiction thriller: entrusting the role of the judge – a tyrannical AI – to an “actor” created by artificial intelligence. A lead quickly buried by the production, which ultimately chose a much more classic option: casting Rebecca Ferguson.

“I remember we were discussing different people who could play these characters, and early on I was like, shouldn’t we make it an AI? Let the judge literally be an AI, and we create an AI?”explains Pratt. Before recognizing that the response was immediate: “Everyone said: no, I don’t think so. And I said, yeah, I don’t think that’s a good idea at all.”

The actor specifies that this possibility was never really seriously considered: “It was no more an option than any other idea when you narrow down the choices. It’s a collaborative effort.”

And Chris Pratt even slipped in another proposition, more absurd but assumed: what if his character could choose the judge’s face, since it’s not “only one face on a screen”? “I could choose Oprah, or anyone. I thought it was funny to imagine Oprah doing that.”

Produced by Amazon MGM, Found Guilty follows Chris Raven, a near-future cop on trial for the murder of his wife (Annabelle Wallis). The incarnated AI judge gives him 90 minutes to prove his innocence… or be executed on the spot.

Watch it at the cinema now.