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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
They've finally done it. Even if You're dead, you still have to fucking go to work.
The dead can't organize labor unions either.
Which was the point of the movie Robocop, and he got featured in the reboot of it.
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
I'm not sure if this was a comment worth making, yet here you are.