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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @11:16PM (4 children)
Or the quality declined when Netflix took the reins and tripled the episode count in under 2 years.
lolololololololol ok boomer
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @12:11AM (3 children)
Or, there are fewer episodes about politics ("The National Anthem", "The Waldo Moment") and more episodes about video games ("Playtest", "USS Callister", "Bandersnatch", "Striking Vipers") than boomers would like.
Black Mirror addresses a younger audience who want to see stories about virtual clones of dead or comatose people ("Be Right Back", "White Christmas", "San Junipero", "Black Museum", "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too") just like this real life news story about the CGI clone of a dead actor.
FYI because you'll never watch the episode, Ashley Eternal is a holographic clone of a comatose singer. Kind of like, you know, the CGI clone of a dead actor.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @04:43AM (1 child)
And fuck you very much for the spoiler, asshole. I haven't watched that one yet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @05:09AM
Not much of a spoiler.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday November 12 2019, @04:39PM
That virtual clone episode was garbage. He's kept up in the attic at the end and sees his daughter on her birthday? Shut up and dance took forever to get on with the story. We all knew he was going to sell out.