By Andrew Pulver,Dan Milmo
Publication Date: 2026-02-13 13:32:00
A leading Hollywood figure has warned: “It’s probably over for us” after watching a widely shared AI-generated clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting.
Rhett Reese, co-writer of Deadpool & Wolverine, Zombieland and Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, responded to a 15-second video of Cruise and Pitt trading punches on a rubble-strewn bridge posted by Irish filmmaker Ruairí Robinson, director of the 2013 sci-fi horror film The Last Days on Mars. Reese reposted the clip on social media and wrote: “I hate It’s probably over for us to say.”
He added: “In no time, a person will be able to sit at a computer and make a movie that will be indistinguishable from what Hollywood is releasing now. True, if that person isn’t good, it will suck. But if that person has the talent and taste of Christopher Nolan (and someone like that will quickly emerge), it will be great.”
Robinson said the clip came from a “two-line prompt in Seedance 2″…
