Back in March came the news that late “Top Gun” and “Batman Forever” actor Val Kilmer will make one final appearance on screen with the help of generative AI. Kilmer was cast in filmmaker Coerte Voorhees’ “As Deep as the Grave” in 2020. He was to play the role of Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist. However, due to Kilmer’s throat cancer, he never shot anything for it, even as the film was “very much designed around him” and he was reportedly keen to be a part of the project. To finish the film, Voorhees used generative AI to include Kilmer in the ensemble following receiving permission to do so from the Kilmer estate and Kilmer’s children. Now, the results are on display in the first look footage from the film, which premiered at CinemaCon and has now been posted on the First Line Films official YouTube channel. The film itself is the true story tale of Southwestern archaeologists Ann and Earl Morris and their excavations in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona to try and trace the history of the Navajo people. Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, Wes Studi, and Abigail Breslin star in the film, with the AI Kilmer said to be a ‘significant part’ of the movie. https://www.darkhorizons.com/teaser-val-kilmer-in-as-deep-as-the-grave/
No, just friggin No............I had to rewind a few times at the end of the clip because I could not tell how much this looked fake because it doesn't look fake, it looks like a young Val Kilmer and I am a HUGE Kilmer fan (his autobiography is fascinating) but we can't do this and we should not allow it....... its fantasy, I am a little shocked the family allowed this Coming in the summer of 2028, the long-awaited sequel to the classic 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring AI versions of Robert Redford and Paul Newman as you've never seen them before (LITERALLY) as they time travel to the future to battle the AI version of Mr T Please, just NO
I guess I'm okay with cases like this since it was a project he had already agreed to. But it's still weird, and it's going to look weird. They only included a brief clip of him speaking in that trailer, and there's a reason. It looks weird. You can tell. I wish they wouldn't do this sort of thing but in this particular case I don't feel like it's wrong, just a bad idea.
I said this years ago. Probably4-5 years ago at this point. Eventually though you will be able to make whatever movie you want for the evening by typing in a prompt. Your Sundance Kid movie being a perfect example. Of course that goes for music as well. You are going swimming? Give me a Bob Marley playlist for the day of new songs.
I didn't mind seeing Tarkin and Leia for a brief moment in Rouge One - I thought it was subtle enough to not be a distraction and it actually benefited the story arc - but this is too much. He's, er....it's going to be in over an hour of this movie.
i like this. eventually actors can just sell their likeness for movies and series. then we don't have to worry about actors aging out or even passing away. good for series like avengers/league of justice or other live action series that's like 100 episodes spanning over 20 years. imagine having tom cruise star in movies for the next 50 years. fap fap fap fap.
