{"id":2249879,"date":"2026-01-25T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249879"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:14:25","slug":"chris-pratt-pitched-having-an-ai-actor-star-as-the-villain-in-mercy-i-dont-think-thats-a-good-idea-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chris-pratt-pitched-having-an-ai-actor-star-as-the-villain-in-mercy-i-dont-think-thats-a-good-idea-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt Pitched Having an AI \u2018Actor\u2019 Star as the Villain in \u2018Mercy\u2019: \u2018I Don\u2019t Think That\u2019s a Good Idea at All\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0695435\/\">Chris Pratt<\/a> recently told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0085995\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that he suggested an AI \u201cactor\u201d play the tyrannical AI judge in his new sci-fi thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31050594\/\">Mercy<\/a>.\u201d However, the idea was quickly shut down by the production, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0272581\/\">Rebecca Ferguson<\/a> was cast in the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember talking about the various people who could play these characters, and early on, I was like, \u2018Should we have it be an AI, where the judge is actually AI, and we create an AI?\u2019 And everyone was like, \u2018No, I don\u2019t think so,&#8217;\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14783236\/\">Pratt<\/a> said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Yeah, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good idea at all.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo it was actually never a possibility any more than anything is a possibility when you\u2019re zeroing in on what the outcome is going to be and what the choices are that you\u2019re going to make. It\u2019s a collaborative effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pratt recently told Entertainment Weekly that he suggested an AI \u201cactor\u201d play the tyrannical AI judge in his new sci-fi thriller \u201cMercy.\u201d However, the idea was quickly shut down by the production, and Rebecca Ferguson was cast in the role. \u201cI remember talking about the various people who could play these characters, and early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2249879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chris-Pratt-Pitched-Having-an-AI-\u2018Actor-Star-as-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249881,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249879\/revisions\/2249881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}