Baz Luhrmann.Photo: Gisela Schober/Getty
Baz Luhrmannmight soon be wading into the android-sphere!
In a conversation with PEOPLE surrounding his partnership withBombay Sapphirefor the gin brand’sSaw This, Made This InstallationA.I. art event, the celebrated filmmaker, 60, tells PEOPLE that the sky’s the limit when it comes to the future of his career.
Asked specifically whether he’d add a science-fiction installment to his whimsical filmography, theMoulin Rouge!andElvisdirector admits he isn’t a fan of the genre — but he “wouldn’t count it out.”
“It’s not that I don’t like fantasy — it’s just [that]other people have already done it, and they’ve done it really well,” he says. “They’ve got their own language. I’ve kind of found myself in the world of the musical and post-modern melodrama and a particular wavering story.”
“Having said that, as I’ve gotten older, I’m thinking, ‘What would I do with science fiction?’ So I wouldn’t count it out,” Luhrmann adds, joking his next project could be “Robots the Musical!”
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Baz Luhrmann.Mike Coppola/FilmMagic
Although he has been working for decades, Luhrmann has directed just six films over the course of his career, beginning with 1992’sStrictly Ballroomand, most recently,Elvis(2022).
And while “all [his] films are as dramatic in their journey to make them as they are in terms of the work themselves,” Luhrmann tells PEOPLE that “nothing will come quite near just how truly wild a rollercoaster rideElviswas, looking back.”
The film was a big hit earning over $288 million worldwide and scoring multiple Oscar nominations, including nods for Best Picture and Best Actor (Austin Butler).
And just like other Luhrmann-collaborating actors beforeElvisstarAustin Butler—Leonardo DiCaprio,Nicole KidmanandJohn Leguizamo, to name a few — the filmmaker could see himself working with Butler, 31, once again.
“It’s a joy when you’re working with actors that you’ve had a long history with,” he says. “I always want to add someone new into the mix. But I mean, let’s even taking outHugh [Jackman], if you look at character actors like Richard Roxburgh orDavid Wenham, who I worked with so many times, they’re always in my movies. So I love that.”
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Now, Luhrmann is excited to promote theSaw This, Made This Installation, in which “people will be given the opportunity to see Ai-Da Robot paint live in the Eye to A.I. studio, as part of an exploration into using A.I. as a tool to further enrich and enable human creativity at scale,” a description reads.
“I have always believedpeople are inherently creative; they just are,” Luhrmann tells PEOPLE of what drew him to A.I. “And I’m at a place in my journey where I want to kind of give back, do something for the younger generation.”
To that end, he continues, “I thought, ‘Okay, great initiative, the message is everyone has creativity within them. We’re going to encourage you just to actually let it go.’ And we’ve had thousands of submissions, and we’re doing our first exhibition here [in London] and then we have our second [in New York City].”
source: people.com
