George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? 296
According to his director friend Mel Smith, George Lucas has a plan for upcoming movies more insidious than a whole Gungan cast. Smith says Lucas is buying the rights to old movies in order to put dead actors in his films. He says, "George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside today's stars." Even if Smith is lying, it makes you wonder who long it will be until Hollywood starts to recycle actors as well as scripts.
Denied, already. (Score:2, Informative)
LucasFilm have already denied the rumour. A very simple Google search prior to publishing this summary would have shown that. I googled "Mel Smith", because I wanted to know if it was the Mel Smith from NTNON/Alias Smith & Jones. Top result, News for Mel Smith... "George Lucas NOT Digitally Resurrecting Dead Actors". On Collider.com, originally reported by On The Red Carpet. I would post a link, but I can't paste anything.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Informative)
Total shit webcomics are never obligatory.
Learn it. Know it. Obey it.
Nothing new here (Score:5, Informative)
Well maybe, but it's been done before with Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid [imdb.com] and Zelig [imdb.com] not to mention Fred Astaire's posthumous commercial for the Dirt Devil [youtube.com] (at 3m02s).
It'd be interesting to see the end product but I'm certain it will cause nothing for grief for various estates despite any good intentions.
Re:Recycle scripts? (Score:5, Informative)
"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (Score:5, Informative)
Disney is kind of doing this (Score:4, Informative)
with Tron, grafting a younger looking Jeff Bridges face unto another actor.
So why not for porn? You could have anyone you want in your porn movie.... and make it look even more realistic.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_en_ot/us_tron_digitally_young_3 [yahoo.com]
Re:At least this will prove zombies don't exist (Score:4, Informative)
It was done [wikipedia.org] many years ago....by Steve Martin.