They couldn’t get Zoltar to de-age him like in Big? Why use A.I. to do something we could already do in 1988 for 25¢?
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Adjusted for inflation, that $0.25 is now equivalent to $68 million dollars, so…
That went the other way, it is easier. The ending was just putting him back.
What's incredible to me is that the results really aren't very good. We all know what they looked like young, and the AI version is just... Not Wright. No Hanks, AI.
I've heard the film is terrible which is more important.
Maybe AI wrote the script too
Please do yourself a favor and read the original graphic novel this slop Is based upon. McGuire's Here is stunning, innovative, incredible and imaginative. Which makes me even mas when thinking it's being turned into a movie.
It'll be interesting to see how this looks. The same technology was used in Alien: Romulus to revive a younger Ian Holm's likeness for Rook, and while it was a cool tech demo, it still felt quite uncanny valley and distracting to watch. Casting another actor might have been a better choice. At least for this project the tech sounds more relevant, in that they're deaging and aging characters within the same film.
to me the Ian Holm abomination was terrible, without any redeeming qualities. same thing as rogue one, exact same shittyness, zero technological progress, crude and unnecessarily distracting.
While I don’t disagree that it’s inevitable that AI will be used in all sorts of ways, I’m really getting tired of all of these large companies trying so hard to jam it in everywhere it may not necessarily belong.
Well they didn't do it with Botox.
When I saw the commercial for this movie all I could think of was that King of the Hill episode where Peggy tries selling houses by staging cheesy family plays about the house
Pretty interesting after Robin Wright's role in The Congress.
Seems pretty sappy. I would be happier with Bachelor Party 2. Where Tom Hank's son goes back in time to 1985 to fix problems that happened.
Using AI in this way I think is generally fine. I draw the line at using it, as well as any other effects, to recreate an actor's face who has passed away.
I thought they went on strike to make sure the next Tom Hanks movie actually has Tom Hanks.
It... is Tom Hanks.
This movie has Tom Hanks. But there is now a trained AI model that can make a very old Tom Hanks look younger. That same model could probably make someone who looks and sounds similar to Tom Hanks look and sound exactly like Tom Hanks.
Sure, but this is a policy problem and not a technology one.
And this is a policy the actors' union went on strike for.