21/08/2025
My Batman project taught me more about leadership than 20 years of directing humans.
Friday I'm pulling back the curtain on exactly what happened.
Walking into AI content creation, I thought it'd be straightforward. I direct creative teams for a living.
Prompting should be simple, right?
Dead wrong.
You can create any world with AI... but prompt badly and you get complete garbage. Way more layers than I expected. Way more possibilities.
My Batman project started simple. Dark city, classic story, easy brief.
Then Midjourney started throwing me curveballs.
Different images sparked script changes. Ideas bouncing everywhere. What I delivered looked nothing like my original vision.
And it was way better.
But here's what really changed me as a leader: I stopped torturing my team with impossible expectations.
Our current project? Building a world where a priest meets Jesus in 30 AD. Sounds straightforward.
We thought: record the priest, run it through Runway, boom, done.
Reality check.
AI still struggles with dialogue scenes. We needed cutaways, listening shots, creative workarounds my team knew about but I didn't.
Before getting my hands dirty with these tools, I was that executive setting unrealistic deadlines based on zero understanding.
Most creative leaders are still doing exactly that. Making AI decisions from boardrooms without ever touching the actual tools.
This Friday's video shows the full Batman breakdown. How the brief evolved, what went wrong, what the AI taught me about directing differently.
Every creative leader needs to stop guessing and start understanding.
Like this if you think executives should actually use the tools they're asking their teams to master 👇