Link: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/

"Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI," Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con.

"I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it's like, connect those dots! I'm not a member of their club.
I didn't sign the waiver to let him use AI on 'Spider Noir.' I'm probably not going to be working with that studio again,
but that's okay."
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"I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z, and they're going at it their own way, whether it's through the YouTube culture or whatever it is," Cage said.

"They're doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that."

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"How do you survive AI?" he asked.

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"The way it's being deployed with the gifs, and we talked about Kane Parsons and what he managed to do with 'Still Life' in our other conversation, it seems to me that if I could like a Cindy Sherman photograph - get the character, psych up, and then take the picture, that would communicate with the meme world we're living in today," he said.

"[But] how can you become relevant as things are moving so fast? I'm still looking for that, and I don't really have an exact answer for you. And I'm still trying to find it."

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Such a real, wise, ineffably magnificent Artist...
He has always been one...

Of course... absolutely!

The effort in humane art expressed emphasizes the time as precious and finite resource we have to express the life experience in the most accurate attitude.

The unique human experienced artwork helps to believe and continue the adventure on this planet, in this Universe, within the infinity of time... for the reason other people do.

Thank you... heartfelt, dear Nicolas Cage, and Artists of the same effortful and Soulfelt attitude... for the Art, marvel, love... you do... within the infinite history, to appreciate, to glorify, to learn from, to respect, preserve with its author's name on it... and keep sacred for the dear infinite future...

I guess that after a while i'll watch true detective again.

The man who walked away from his monumental family name to make his own way through talent, and they thought this guy would be okay with their greedy bullshit? I hope it all goes very badly for Amazon and OpenAI.

What does that have to do with this?

The full article title is

Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’

NIC CAGE

JOINS THE BATTLE

Huh until i looked it up i had no idea he was the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola.

I'm sure it still helped and people in the industry would have known

I’m sure it still helped

Yeah I'm sure it did. That's why he spent his career doing Oscar bait and high concept cinema. He definitely didn't burn that shit to the ground several times over and still come out on top. /s

Ridiculous negging lmao.

Whelp, time to smoke a blunt and rewatch Face/Off

Related: https://youtu.be/PDnW5XxjwI8 (Face Off (1997) - Hallelujah scene...) ❤️

So, does this mean any actor working with Amazon MGM signed the waiver for AI like Anne Hathaway in Verity? It's weird though because Amazon could've just pursued without the AI and potentially earn more money in future seasons because the Spider-Man BND has shown how much of a money maker the brand is.