Filmemacher verteidigen den mit KI erstellten Val-Kilmer-Film
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/filmmakers-defend-val-kilmer-movie-made-with-ai-2026-04-16/
Filmemacher verteidigen den mit KI erstellten Val-Kilmer-Film
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/filmmakers-defend-val-kilmer-movie-made-with-ai-2026-04-16/
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> LAS VEGAS, April 16 (Reuters) – The makers of a new film with an AI-generated performance by late actor Val Kilmer defended their work on Thursday and said they believed their approach demonstrated an ethical path to future use of the technology in Hollywood.
> Brothers Coerte and John Voorhees said they had gained consent from Kilmer’s children to use AI to create his role in „As Deep as the Grave,“ the story of archaeologists who explore the history of the Navajo people in New Mexico. They said they used archival footage, photos and voice recordings to help craft the performance.
> „We are 100% confident it’s really the right move with this specific film, and we’re really, really looking forward to everyone being able to judge it for themselves,“ Coerte Voorhees, the movie’s writer and director, said in an interview at the CinemaCon convention for theater owners in Las Vegas.
Judging from the trailer, I don’t think this will really be the test for whether this sort of thing will actually work. It still looks like abysmal dogshit slop.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the estates of deceased actors start selling off their image rights to allow this to happen more in future.
Once the royalties for old movies and tv shows start drying up after a few years to decades getting a pile of cash for basically zero work would be tempting.
This is just depressing as hell. There are so many actors out there and so many stories to tell but instead we’re gonna use some bull shit AI to put a deceased actor back on the screen.
Dystopian AF
I assume it’s different but what is the difference between how Rogue One used Peter Cushing and this? Is it CGI with body doubling vs AI? That was creepy enough IMO, and this seems worse if no humans were involved.
If I were an actor, I would set up very specific circumstances on how my likeness can be used after my death. I would allow it. I would make a list of names that my character must go by. I would make it specific on whether or not I was a good guy or a bad guy what character name they can use. I would also specify exactly the name that would be credited.
People who defend unethical practices in film try defend why they deserve so much money by exploiting dead actors.