Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons has a complicated legacy—both considered one of the greatest films of all time and a complete mess that saw the iconic director’s vision stifled by his studio and the original cut destroyed. Somehow, the AI guys have decided that’s their signal to get involved.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , an Amazon-backed generative AI company called Showrunner, the creators of a streaming service that lets subscribers create their own episodes of shows, plan to attempt to recreate Welles’ original cut of the film, which is thought to largely be lost. What happened to Welles’ version of The Magnificent Ambersons is a Hollywood tragedy. His 131-minute epic and follow-up to Citizen Kane failed to resonate with test audiences, leading to the

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