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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 11 2019, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the stroll-through-the-uncanny-valley dept.

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James Dean, who died in 1955, just landed a new movie role, thanks to CGI

James Dean is making his return to the big screen more than 60 years after dying in a car crash, thanks to two VFX companies.

Finding Jack is a movie set within the Vietnam-era that is "based on the existence and abandonment of more than 10,000 military dogs at the end of the Vietnam War," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dean isn't the leading role, but his performance as "Rogan" is "considered a secondary lead role," according to the Reporter. Finding Jack marks the first movie that Dean will star in since Giant in 1956, just one year after his iconic role as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause.

Magic City Films, the company producing the movie, obtained the rights to Dean's image from his family. The goal is to re-create "a realistic version of James Dean," the film's directors told the Reporter. To do so, they're working with Canadian VFX studio Imagine Engine and South African VFX company MOI Worldwide. Dean's body will be fully re-created using CGI technology, and another actor will voice his lines.


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  • (Score: 2) by bradley13 on Monday November 11 2019, @02:22PM (5 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Monday November 11 2019, @02:22PM (#918929) Homepage Journal

    Indeed. Exactly what rights did they purchase? And why did they think this was necessary? Does each person have a copyright on their own face? The guy has been dead for decades.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:29PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:29PM (#918934)

    I wonder if he had to audition.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:36PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:36PM (#918940)

      He was a diversity hire.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @05:14PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @05:14PM (#918986)

        #DeadLivesMatter

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 11 2019, @06:33PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 11 2019, @06:33PM (#919003) Journal

          True indeed! Since dead people form an important demographic in election cycles.

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      • (Score: 3, Touché) by FatPhil on Monday November 11 2019, @09:59PM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday November 11 2019, @09:59PM (#919113) Homepage
        #WightLivesMatter
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