# Secret Invasion Opens with AI-Generated Credits

- Date: 2023-06-21
- Type: news
- Credit: Marvel Studios / Method Studios
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/secret-invasion-ai-credits

Marvel's Disney+ series premieres with an opening title sequence made with generative AI, produced by Method Studios. Director Ali Selim defends the choice as thematically fitting for a show about shape-shifting alien Skrulls. The backlash is immediate and loud — concept artists, illustrators, and union members frame it as a high-profile studio normalizing AI work that displaced human jobs. For mainstream audiences, this is the moment generative imagery walks into a prestige franchise and forces a conversation that until then had largely been confined to art-Twitter.

Links:
- Polygon — Director Ali Selim Confirms AI Use: https://www.polygon.com/23767640/ai-mcu-secret-invasion-opening-credits
- The Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/marvel-secret-invasion-ai-opening-credits-1235527236/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/secret-invasion-ai-credits
Era: 2023 · The Cambrian Explosion
Last updated: 2026-09-23