Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337
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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:00AM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 13 2019, @01:29AM (2 children)
Do you happen to have a spare hundred grand laying around you want to spend on SN subscriptions? If not, please don't do that shit here. We can't currently afford to be sued even if we're 100% in the right.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday November 13 2019, @02:59PM (1 child)
Just curious, but isn't this one of those posts that you might delete? I'm all for freedom of speech, but I enjoy your site too much to have it harassed by the MPAA.
You should have also given some constructive criticism because I believe the person's heart was in the right place. Something like telling them to just recommend the show by name and recommend they get it by any means (etc).
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:34PM
If we get a DMCA notice, sure. We're not obligated to be copyright police outside that though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.