By Robert Booth
Publication Date: 2026-04-22 13:05:00
His hit film was a masterpiece that captured the gritty truth of the Parisian suburbs, but the director of La Haine is now convinced of an AI-generated future of cinema.
Mathieu Kassovitz has called the technology “the last artistic tool we need” and dismissed concerns that AI could steal other artists’ intellectual property, telling the Guardian: “Screw copyright.”
The award-winning director and actor, who is making an almost entirely AI-powered film based on a 1940s war comic by Edmond-François Calvo, also predicted that the first AI movie stars are just around the corner. Kassovitz said that while other filmmakers fear that AI-generated human characters will appear soulless, he was recently stunned to see one that had “an emotion in his eyes that made me shiver.”
“Everyone is scared right now,” he said. “But in a few years there will be really, really good AI superstars. You’ll have AI actors with millions of followers. They’ll exist in your phone (and)…
