Steven Soderbergh has revealed that AI-generated scenes make up 10 per cent of his forthcoming John Lennon documentary, adding that he thinks the late Beatles star would approve.

The Oscar-winning director focuses on Lennon’s final in-depth radio interview, which took place with his wife Yoko Ono on 8 December 1980 – just 12 hours before he was shot dead by Mark David Chapman in New York.

Opening up about making the documentary, Soderbergh ( Erin Brockovich ; Ocean’s Eleven ) said that he used artificial intelligence to create certain images and videos to feature when Lennon and Ono are speaking in abstract terms.…