ASPEN, July 3 -- Nobody in Hollywood builds a resume like Jodie Foster's, and at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Wednesday she used it to say something about F1 that neither Brad Pitt, director Joseph Kosinski, nor producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been inclined to answer.

"F1 was made by AI," Foster said during a panel titled "Who Owns the Future of Hollywood?" "The structure was exactly the structure that you would learn in school."

She said it without contempt. The movie, she noted, had gone on to make millions of dollars, an observation she offered as fact rather than condemnation. But spoken by a two-time Oscar winner with five decades of studio experience, the assessment carries a specific weight. Foster was not dismissing a flop. She wa...