Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons" — but the late directors' estate is calling bull.

In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles' estate on behalf of the auteur's daughter Beatrice, said that the family hadn't been informed of the project, which is slated to generate with AI the final 43 minutes of the film.

Edward Saatchi, the CEO of the Showrunner AI video app that Amazon recently invested in, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week that he and indie filmmaker Brian Rose want to resurrect that "lost" footage from Welles "ruined masterpiece" and bring the film "back to life."

They plan to do so by shooting sequences with live acto

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