'If studios can prolong or revive their most valuable franchises with CGI that can bring back the old, dead, or burned-out actors who most profitably led them, they will.' TheWeirdnessIsComing
Before and after rendering of a young Will Smith in Gemini Man. Photo-Illustration: by Marcus Peabody; source images Getty In Ang Lee’s new movie Gemini Man, Will Smith plays a middle-aged assassin who finds out his bosses have cloned him and that his younger double — who is also played by Smith, or at least a swarm of pixels moving in his shape and under his control — wants to kill him and steal his job. It might’ve been inspired by a true story.
Gemini Man flopped — it only made $20 million in its first weekend — but think of it as an investment. To create their own clone of Smith, the moviemakers didn’t just airbrush his wrinkles or paste footage of his younger face onto somebody else’s head, like in that deep-fake video where Bill Hader morphs into Arnold Schwarzenegger; they built a complete digital replica of a 23-year-old Smith, with a body and facial muscles that moved on the 51-year-old Smith’s command .
None of the makers of Gemini Man has actually suggested the effects developed for their movie are intended to replace the real Smith or any of his carbon-based peers, probably to avoid riots by the Screen Actors Guild, but this is almost certainly inevitable. In every year of the past decade, at least seven of the top-ten-grossing movies have been sequels, remakes, or other extensions of preexisting franchises.
Even if Hollywood were to reprioritize original movies, the pullback over the past decade has created a shortage of new stars capable of leading them. With fewer chances to stand out amid so much flashy intellectual property, and with moviegoers’ attentions divided by social media, tribal politics, and a dozen different streaming networks, not many younger actors have managed to reach the same levels of recognition and box-office power as their predecessors.
But if Hollywood could make backup copies of these actors and reanimate dead ones — say Bruce Lee, Audrey Hepburn, and James Dean for starters — and cast them all in movies together at the ages we remember them best, there might be no need for new stars ever again. Will digital actors look as good or act as well as the ones they’re cloned from? Probably not, at least at first.
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