Avengers Director Envisions Future Where You Can Ask Robot Tom Cruise About His Movie In Your Living Room

There will be changes to filmmaking and how people watch movies in the future--this much is certain--but what will that future look like? No one can say for sure, but Avengers co-director Joe Russo has shared his thoughts on one possibility for the future of film, and it sounds pretty out-there.

Speaking to Variety, Joe Russo laid out one possibility for the future of film, and as he sees it, we might one day be able to see an AI version of an actor from a movie and ask them about a scene in question.

"Filmmaking is going to transform into some other medium," he said. "I don't know what that media is going to be. My guess is that when you can sit in your house, turn to one of the actors that is standing in front of you and say, 'Hey, Tom Cruise, hold on a second. Tell me about how you filmed this scene,' and the AI-fueled Tom Cruise can turn to you and start explaining. It's over at that point, right? That's when technology will dominate whatever new form of storytelling is coming."

To be sure, Joe Russo is not saying this is going to happen soon, if it ever does. He is outlining one possibility for how film could evolve one day.

Joe Russo and Anthony Russo directed the final Avengers movies that were box office smashes. They run a production company called AGBO Films that produced films like Extraction, Cherry, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and The Gray Man, among others.

AGBO is clearly looking to the future and thinking about how it can grow beyond the traditional filmmaking process. The company recently got a $400 million investment from Japanese game publisher Nexon to create "universes that, from the outset, are intended to coexist across games, film, TV, merchandising, and other experiences." Whether or not Joe Russo's robot Tom Cruise is part of this future expansion is unknown, however.

Joe and Anthony Russo, along with writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, are the writers and directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, which together have grossed more than $7 billion at the box office.