Hollywood just got a stunned. A jaw-droppingly realistic 15-second video showing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a rooftop has caught the attention of one of the industry’s top screenwriters—and even the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
The video was posted by Irish director Ruairí Robinson, who was Oscar-nominated back in 2002 for his short film. What’s wild? He created the entire thing using just two lines of text in Seedance 2.0, a tool owned by ByteDance—the same company behind TikTok.
Unsurprisingly, the MPA wasn’t thrilled. Charles Rivkin, the association’s president and CEO, slammed the platform:
‘In a single day, Seedance 2.0 massively used U.S. copyrighted material without permission. If proper protections against copyright infringement aren’t in place, this undermines the laws that protect creators and millions of jobs. ByteDance must stop this immediately.’
Screenwriter Rhett Reese—famous for Deadpool and Zombieland—took to X (formerly Twitter) after seeing the clip:’ I hate to admit it, but it feels like the end of us.’When a fan said the video looked “bad,” Reese doubled down:
‘Soon, anyone will be able to sit at a computer and create a film that looks like a Hollywood blockbuster. If that person lacks talent, it’ll be terrible. But if it’s someone on Christopher Nolan’s level? Mind-blowing.’
Reese made it clear: he’s not excited about AI creeping into creative jobs.
‘I’m terrified. So many people I care about could lose their careers. That Pitt-Cruise video is so professional that’s exactly what scares me. Hollywood is on the edge of either a revolution… or total chaos.’
But he also sees a silver lining. Hollywood has always been a closed club, keeping young, underprivileged talent away from big opportunities. With tools like Seedance 2.0, that could change. “There will be new ‘Nolans’ out there,” he said, “and the results could be astonishing.”
In short: Hollywood’s future is about to get a serious shake-up, and no one knows exactly what’s coming next.
This was a 2 line prompt in seedance 2. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right maybe the hollywood is cooked guys are cooked too idk. pic.twitter.com/dNTyLUIwAV
— Ruairi Robinson (@RuairiRobinson) February 11, 2026
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