• jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    58·
    8 days ago

    This is so weird to me. Are we really at a point where we need recreate old, dead actors instead of giving new actors a shot?

    Like could you imagine if we had this technology a hundred years ago and just decided that Charlie Chaplin was the best, so let’s just clone his likeness and put him in everything? You’d never have a John Wayne, a Robert DeNiro, a Harrison Ford, or a Tom Hanks. Just a recreation of Charlie Chaplin in every major movie - because it’s cheaper and less risky to recreate someone old with AI than it is to take a chance on someone new.

    This timeline is dumb as hell.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      Issue is, movie execs see even CinemaSins style critique as valid, so they try their best to avoid “the protagonist looks different from what he looked like in the previous episode ding”. They even tanked SW IX to try to win over chuds, only to alienate everyone.

    • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
      111·
      8 days ago

      It’s just cheaper and people are not yet accepting AI actors, so bringing back a known actor is step 1.

      Studios would LOVE to replace all the actors and writers with cheap AI slop.

      I mean they already tried and faced massive backlash. So they’re going about it more carefully now.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
      64·
      8 days ago

      In fairness to the studio, he had accepted the role before he became ill and was unable to actually film for the role. They also had the permission of his family, and I believe the actor himself.