‘A Murder At The End Of The World’ Creators Talk Inspiration Behind The Thriller Series & How AI Suddenly Became “Real Life” — Contenders TV
deadline.comWhat started off as a creative fantasy story unintentionally became hyperrealistic in Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s hit limited series A Murder at the End of the World.
The writing duo, who also served as co-creators, directors and EPs of the FX series, sat down at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the inspiration behind the mystery.
Marling explained that the idea of the tech retreat came to them back in 2019, after several of their own friends had gone through similar experiences, describing how interesting she found it that “Everyone’s so willing to surrender to the largess of the billionaire, but what are the billionaire’s intentions?” At the time, artificial intelligence was nowhere near where it is today, with several of their own friends attempting to discourage them from making it so central to the plot saying “AI’s so far away, do Mars, do this, but don’t do AI”.
They didn’t let that deter them, both affirming that they’d wanted it in from the start. The duo had even gotten access to a beta version of Chat GPT that was laughably bad when getting inspiration, making them agree that the story was just sci-fi.
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