Musk responds to Blade Runner's lawsuit: This movie sucks

Recently, Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind "Blade Runner 2049", sued Musk and Warner Bros., accusing Tesla's driverless taxi Robotaxi conference of using AI-generated images based on the movie "Blade Runner 2049". However, Musk responded with only three words: That movie sucked.

Alcon said that Warner had previously applied to use a still from "Blade Runner 2049" in the event, but was explicitly rejected by Alcon. Despite the rejection, Tesla and other organizers of the event still fed the still to AI to generate a fake picture for use at the press conference.

This image reflects the scenes in "Blade Runner 2049", and there is even a scene in which a person who looks like the movie's actor Ryan Gosling appears. When showing this image at the press conference, Musk said: "You know, I love "Blade Runner", but I'm not sure if we want that kind of future. I'm sure we want his coat, but we don't want that bleak doomsday world."

Released in 2017, Blade Runner 2049 stars Ryan Gosling as K, a new LAPD blade runner who "discovers a long-buried secret that threatens to plunge society into chaos," which sends him on a journey to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. Blade Runner 2049 has an 88% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 89% audience score.

According to Box Office Mojo, Blade Runner 2049 grossed $259.2 million worldwide against a budget of about $150 million. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 Blade Runner, starring Ford.

According to the lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, Musk's Robotaxi video demonstration used AI-generated images representing scenes from "Blade Runner 2049," after Alcon explicitly denied using any movie images. These included an image of a "Ryan Gosling lookalike" and images of "iconic-style futuristic cars," Alcon's lawsuit said.

The lawsuit states, "Musk knew that Alcon had refused to grant permission and had expressly objected to the use of images from Blade Runner 2049 at Tesla events. Therefore, Musk knew and understood that including 'BR2049' in the event presentation was inappropriate and an unauthorized misappropriation of the goodwill of 'BR2049.' Yet he did it anyway."

Alcon said in the lawsuit that it wants "Blade Runner 2049" to have no connection to "Tesla, X, Elon Musk, or any company owned by Elon Musk," given that "Musk's conduct has been grossly exaggerated, highly politicized, erratic and arbitrary, and has at times veered into hate speech."