An AI version of Val Kilmer stars in the new “movie” ‘As Deep as the Grave.’ Kilmer was cast in the movie in 2015, five years before his death. But he was too sick amid his throat cancer battle to film. An AI version of him appears in the film, with the blessing of his daughter.
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I’ll be sure to give this slop a miss.
That’s one movie I’ll never watch in my entire life.
Ehww …Just terrible in any sense. And a total lack of respect for him. These AI slops, especially the one with fake digital actors must be banned and forgotten
Disgusting as fuck.
I hate this so much
“With the family’s blessing” should no longer be a pass
Will NOT be watching
What if there was a way to eliminate a profit motive from the operation… say all the proceeds/profit goes to throat cancer research or something?
Are his kids that hungry for money??
Nothing is ever enough for these Hollywood folk 😣yikes
Oh no… NO NO NO! We can’t start setting a precedent on resurrecting dead actors from the grave with AI just to make some shitty movie. We’re close to doomsday, and I’m not just talking about the Avengers movie…
As a consumer of media, I don’t think anyone’s blessing would make me feel okay about this. It’s not even a moral thing at this point…if I’m going to see a movie for the actor, I want the real deal. I don’t need an AI stand in. Simply put, just recast or call it a loss.
Richard Harris was a great Dumbledore, but I wouldn’t want some AI version of him. Just recast (which they did) and allow another actor some work.
There isn’t a single role that I’m like…I really need to see this specific actor so bad that only they can portray the character.
When an actor is too sick to work there’s another cutting edge, mindblowing alternative: it’s called recast.
His daughter sucksssss
Wishing failure of all future endeavors by everyone involved in this film
That should be not allowed full stop.
Nope.
I wonder if all of you guys reacting so vehemently would do the same if this was entirely CGI, with no AI involved ?
No thanks. I’ll go watch Tombstone or Spartan.
Bruh
I’ll be the controversial one.
According to the article, both of his kids gave their blessing and Val himself was actively pursuing this role before his death. It also sounds like the director wrote the entire story around wanting him to play this particular role.
No, I don’t think the family is strapped for cash, as the other comments are shouting. If the family is ok with it and Val wanted this to be the cap of his career then I see why it’s moving forward.
With that said, this is a unique situation where everyone with a stake in it appears to be on board. That isn’t typically the case.
I thought they were talking about Allen Iverson.
Nope. Hard pass. There must be a firm line between generative AI and special effects.
If the actor consents and profits from an AI abomination starring in a film in their likeness before they die, I’m fine with it. I’ll probably not watch it, but it’s all done with the actors’ knowledge and consent.
Fuck movies that do the alternative. One of the most disgusting bits of ‘casting’ in recent memory was Ian Holm in Alien Romulus. Ian felt betrayed by Hollywood because he stopped being cast in the last years of his life. And to be put in a movie without his consent and him seeing a penny in life? Awful. Doesn’t help that it looked like shit and served no purpose.
Peter Cushing and Harold Ramis also come to mind. Morbid stuff.
There are cases like Oliver Reed that are completely morally sound. He was making the movie when he died, and they used some rehearsal footage to fill in the blanks. What a movie to bookend your career with, too.
This one is a bit of a grey area. He agreed to be in the movie 11 years ago – Would he have agreed to be deepfaked post-mortem?
Personally, I thought Top Gun Maverick was the perfect send-off for Kilmer. I guess his daughter thought differently.
That’s so wrong, he only recently passed away.
Gross man
And people thought that the Star Wars digital clones were the worst thing Hollywood produced… Now you have cheap slop, at least those resurrected actors Disney made had artistry behind them. Now with people online thinking all images in movies are lit the same way everything is going to look as dead as the Hollywood actors resurrected by AI… Imagine thinking 10 seconds scenes to make a movie character sequence is a good thing.
“with the blessing of his daughter.”
Blech
Not surprisingly, this sub is severely overreacting.
This makes me sick to my stomach. It’s like someone dug up his corpse and used it as a skin puppet
2015 was not 5 years before his death
Ai slop no thank you
Why not cast someone…
It will b ok