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Kilmer passed away in 2025 after battling throat cancer. Apparently his character will feature in over an hour of the movie.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/val-kilmer-ai-generated-new-movie-rcna264195
Usually i wonder "Oh, xyz is still alive?", feels werid to wonder "Oh, xyz is dead? When did that happen?"
Is this a getting-old thing? :(
They've finally done it. Even if You're dead, you still have to fucking go to work.
Which was the point of the movie Robocop, and he got featured in the reboot of it.
I would say that if no one paid to see the movie maybe studios would quit doing this, but there are usually a lot of people who don't know or don't care about any given shitty thing, so things get slowly worse.
That's the flow of the world. The vast majority doesn't know and doesn't care. We all get what we deserve in the end though...
So they're just making money over a dead guy's likeness. Business as usual then.
He was going to play the role before he died, and they decided to use AI to recreate his likeness instead of recasting.
So not quite as ghoulish as you might think.
How does that make it not ghoulish?
Not quite as ghoulish. Say 99% as ghoulish.
Exactly. I'm not saying it's fine, just not as terrible as you might originally think.
I’m not sure if that’s a distinction worth making in this case
So just holding him to his contractual obligations after death then?
That's not making it any better.
Will his estate see the amount he was contractually obligated for revenue, etc?
In that context, that's more ghoulish.
that doesn't even look like him.
It looks like someone tried to make Tom Cruise look like Val Kilmer.
Maybe if we see an era of AI reducing people’s individuality and throwing them all into an uncanny valley of blended-together appearances, we’ll wind up with a resurgence of interest in actors with atypical features.
Maybe from the early 90s