[Wacojoe]

Technology is now taking decades off live actors. It won’t be many years before the FX Boys will convincingly be able to present any actor with a substantial film catalog from which to draw. Clark Gable can be in a new action film for instance. Putting aside interesting legal issues, which actors/actresses would you most like recreated in rolls? You are welcome to suggest a roll or genre for them.

Me — I would go first with Gary Cooper or Bogart. I always had this thing about Susan Hayward too. Could they capture the subtlety of a Fred Astair dance? That would be magic again, if they could. Doubtful.

Singers and performers might be more of a challenge technically, but that will be possible too in time, I am thinking. Elvis lives on! Comics would be the most difficult to my mind’s eye because their art is so personal the writers would have a harder time creating new jokes matching with the visuals.

What can happen, will happen.

 

[noob00224]

Marilyn Monroe.

This technology could also be applied to living actors, and not just in the (facial) age department , i.e. Arnold Schwarzenegger circa 80/90's. And maybe it could improve on their acting abilities as well.

The Congress (2013) touched on this topic.

 

[Ratman]

Personally? None.


https://www.google.com/search?q=hol...7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=

 

[Panson]

I agree with Ratman. Let 'em rest in peace.

 

[Jonas2]

I wonder if real actors will actually be replaced some day! Just think - actors that work for free, never complain, and never do anything stupid or controversial. Boring? Sure. But could it happen?

 

[tenthplanet]

Technology is now taking decades off live actors. It won’t be many years before the FX Boys will convincingly be able to present any actor with a substantial film catalog from which to draw. Clark Gable can be in a new action film for instance. Putting aside interesting legal issues, which actors/actresses would you most like recreated in rolls? You are welcome to suggest a roll or genre for them.

Me — I would go first with Gary Cooper or Bogart. I always had this thing about Susan Hayward too. Could they capture the subtlety of a Fred Astair dance? That would be magic again, if they could. Doubtful.

Singers and performers might be more of a challenge technically, but that will be possible too in time, I am thinking. Elvis lives on! Comics would be the most difficult to my mind’s eye because their art is so personal the writers would have a harder time creating new jokes matching with the visuals.

What can happen, will happen.

Bela Lugosi as Dracula of course.

 

[8mile13]

Just read about The Irishman that costs where up 15 million because of more expensive shoot and making actors look younger (movie goes back in time). So making actors look younger is very expensive.

Samuel L Jackson's youthful appearence in Captain Marvel
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/captain-marvel-how-did-samuel-l-jackson-look-so-young.html/

Dead actors do not create new material, their mannerisms are from their era and they are not getting payed. So no thanks...

 

[darthrsg]

Rather see a modern actor/director take on the styles of film and acting from yesterday.

 

[Ratman]

Tarantino?

 

[darthrsg]

Tarantino?

He does a fair job at it. There's a very different style in the older movies, I like seeing it.


That Lighthouse movie trailer looks the part.

 

[Dodge DeBoulet]

Matt Frewer as Max Headroom.

But ONLY as Max Headroom.






For reasons that should be obvious.

 

[Tack]

Matt Frewer as Max Headroom.

But ONLY as Max Headroom.






For reasons that should be obvious.

That's probably the one application that makes sense.

 

[darthrsg]

That's probably the one application that makes sense.

Not wish harm on anyone, but Andy Serkis after he passes may be an ideal candidate. Hopefully after we are all gone and can't complain about it. He's been scanned enough that when Putin unleashes the world ending AI it will choose him as Supreme Leader like Stantz chose Gozer's form.

 

[Dodge DeBoulet]

Not wish harm on anyone, but Andy Serkis after he passes may be an ideal candidate. Hopefully after we are all gone and can't complain about it. He's been scanned enough that when Putin unleashes the world ending AI it will choose him as Supreme Leader like Stantz chose Gozer's form.

Yikes! That would be an infinitely recursive re-vivification ...

Andy makes CGI look awesome.

CGI Andy makes Andy make CGI look Awesome.

CGI CGI Andy makes CGI Andy making Andy making CGI look Awesome.
.
.
.

:: aleph zero recursion limit reached; ::

 

[sdurani]

Don't know if anyone has seen these Deepfake demos; subtle but scary:

 

[darthrsg]

As that tech matures expect a wilder ride than we've been on. Considering most don't go beyond the headline for news or info.

 

[hitchfan]

It might be interesting to see actors (or any other famous modern historical figures whose face, body and voice are generally familiar to us) be revived digitally to portray themselves in a biopic of their life. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Gene Kelly, John Wayne, Nat Cole, John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock, Wilt Chamberlain (hehe), John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, etc.

Yes, it runs the risk of being creepy and distracting. But that can also happen when another actor, a living actor, is either loaded up with hair and make-up or, today, digitally altered in an attempt to "look" like the subject of the biopic. Especially when it comes to the aging process. I'd at least like to give the attempt a test run to see how it goes. Maybe a 30 minute mini-bio of someone very well known to us in look, voice and demeanor who has passed on. Or who has given their blessing to give it a go even if they are just retired from public appearances and still living.

Another possibility; the still living Sean Connery gives his blessing (and gets a check) to appear as a GOLDFINGER (1964) age James Bond in the next 5 installments. I'd buy a ticket to see those and would enjoy them, can't imagine they would creep me out in the least.

Of course, if the technology can really duplicate the look and sound of a famous person so perfectly, I suppose they'll need to run a disclaimer to inform current and future audiences that this isn't really a "John Wayne movie", but an amazing simulation of one.

 

[8mile13]

VFX Artists React to Resurrected Actors Bad & Great CGi

 

[IN2tvClassics]

Another possibility; the still living Sean Connery gives his blessing (and gets a check) to appear as a GOLDFINGER (1964) age James Bond in the next 5 installments. I'd buy a ticket to see those and would enjoy them, can't imagine they would creep me out in the least.

It would only be worth it if "Sir Thomas Sean Connery" provided all the dialogue.


We already had a sample of digitally revived actors.

Jack Lord from "Hawaii Five-O" appeared in "Hawaii Five-0"

 

[tenthplanet]

It would only be worth it if "Sir Thomas Sean Connery" provided all the dialogue.


We already had a sample of digitally revived actors.

Jack Lord from "Hawaii Five-O" appeared in "Hawaii Five-0"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_YCuRJyZ0

"I am the ghost of Five - O past..."