[James] Dean has been cast as the star in a new, upcoming movie called Back to Eden.
Damn, I wonder if people will have to include something in their wills against their likeness being used like this. Imagine your descendents selling the rights to your likeness and it being used to promote views you disagree with, capitalising on the reputation you had before your death.
Gunna get a Don’t Reanimate sticker on my driver’s license.
Robin Williams did that exact thing with Disney in his Aladdin contract
Dude died in 1955. Who would even be excited about this, 80 year olds?
This movie is going to flop and hopefully Hollywood will learn the right lesson from it.
I’m in my 40s and I love James Dean. But I don’t love a guy who looks and sounds like James Dean. I love the really talented actor James Dean who tackled his few roles in an incredibly charismatic and engaging way. I don’t want to see an AI’s interpretation of that.
That was my thought too, but according to Wikipedia, his estate still brings in $5M/year.
Thats just a different therm for “we grave robbery and violate peoples rights”
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Come on thats crazy, why should they make new content with dead people? Should we bring back Marilyn Monroe? would it be enjoyable to watch movies or even a Ads of dead people, that are made by AI? Leave the dead where he is, its not a good idea to use dead actors/stars. Yes they had a success back in their era, but now its a new era, and we need something new not old. As for the rights, I believe they should ban any form of AI related in movies etc., it may be just the beginning.
The movie industry is allergic to any new ideas unless it can be used to regurgitate old ideas that are safe money makers. They’d rather people watch dead actors or the same plot twisted around for the millionth time because of nostalgia instead of trying something new.
In this situation I would stop watching movies.
Monty Python got this right 50 years ago:
Hell fucking no!
Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I get the feeling that AI necromancy will be the next 3D. It’ll be a fad for a few years, and then we’ll wonder where “look kids, it’s [dead/old actor]!” went. Maybe AI will find a useful place in film, maybe it won’t, but I doubt it will be one of the main draws for very long.
Damn that was super interesting to read. Thanks for the post. 👍
I figured this was coming some day. Do no one remember when Budweiser made that commercial using John Wayne?
That was the day I invasion that movies could be made with dead stars. Imagine a world where you could make a Grown Ups movie and actually have Chris Farley in the film as it was attended. Or bring back John Candy.
Ethical it probably wrong but growing up I thought of this many times and wonder what it would be like.
And the technology is almost there, almost prefected to a point that say in 10 years if stay the course you won’t need to hire movie actors in the first place.
So from the perspective from the actors I would be totally against this. But as a fan of movies makes me excited.
But it isn’t bringing those people back. It’s bringing approximations of them back. AI John Candy won’t make the comedic decisions and acting choices of the real John Candy. What you love is their talent, not their physical appearance and voice.
I disagree I believe we can bring those people to life on film. Take Chris Farley for example. You take all the films and the years on Saturday Night Live. Combine that with probably 100’s of hours if not more of interviews and behind the scene footage. Then take everything every written by him. There is apparently 90% of his voice for the original Shrek movie out there. Add that too.
Put it all into an algorithm with AI and you could probably get pretty damn close short of having the real life person.
Watch and see if they decide to push forward with this technology (and seems rhey do) we could see tons of long dead actors come back to life in new movies and film.
So you’re saying this AI knows comedy like Chris Farley knew comedy? Because I haven’t even seen an AI that can tell a good joke yet.
