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Deepfake AI Tech Revolutionize Fan Edits

In practice, if I had the ability, the first thing I'd do is replace fake looking young Jeff Bridges from Tron Legacy with his real face from the first Tron (watching the movies back to back really makes the difference stand out). Maybe keep the original CGI face for Clu 2.0 though.

Kinda like what Corridor Crew did for The Rock in The Mummy 2. Also kinda like that replacement of Superman's CGI mouth.

Also maybe see how far the tech will go in that direction. The Lazarus episode of Doctor Who, the Lawnmower Man, how many CGI faces would this work on?
 
jrWHAG42 said:
Look, Val Kilmer isn't the problem with Forever. I like his Batman. I don't particularly like Keaton's face.
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If you say so.
 
addiesin said:
In practice, if I had the ability, the first thing I'd do is replace fake looking young Jeff Bridges from Tron Legacy with his real face from the first Tron (watching the movies back to back really makes the difference stand out). Maybe keep the original CGI face for Clu 2.0 though.
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Again, I’m just not so sure it’s that easy. Endgame had to have had a huge budget but they couldn’t make young Michael Douglas remotely convincing.
 
jrWHAG42 said:
Imagine having a dark cut of Batman Forever, and have it flash back to Batman killing the Joker, using footage from 89, and putting Kilmer's face on it.
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Wouldn't that just be a chin swap?
 
Of course the voice is all-important, but imagine putting Connery's face onto George Lazenby or Daniel Craig in one of the better fanedits? Or Connery in The Living Daylights or Goldeneye. It would work best with Lazenby or Dalton probably.

I bet Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story would be interesting if all the actual Beatles were in that scene. 

The opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy must have used this tech to de-age Kurt Russell. IMO it worked really well. 

In LA Confidential the director's main acting note to Kevin Spacey was stop grabbing that guy's balls!  "Play the character like Dean Martin."  How about we go ahead and replace him with Dino! In fact, let's replace everyone on Ocean's 11 the remake with the original cast! Get the whole Rat Pack back together.
 
Anarchemist said:
let's replace everyone on Ocean's 11 the remake with the original cast! Get the whole Rat Pack back together.
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Anarchemist said:
The opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy must have used this tech to de-age Kurt Russell. IMO it worked really well. 
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It didn't. That film used much more expensive frame-by frame manual de-aging involving VFX artists watching a lot of younger Kurt Russell's film appearances, and a stand-in on-set for lighting and skin reference. The stand-in was actually the actor who played the main character from the film Heavyweights, a favorite of mine in my youth. The VFX artists basically paint away the aging by hand. It's impressive and tedious. 

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I can’t remember what I thought of that particular de-aging, but generally I think it’s pretty awful. It was especially awful for Michael Douglas in Endgame.
 
Moe_Syzlak said:
I can’t remember what I thought of that particular de-aging, but generally I think it’s pretty awful. It was especially awful for Michael Douglas in Endgame.
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It wasn't that bad. De-aged Michael Douglas in the Ant-Man films is phenomenal though.
 
if any deepfakers read this thread - brando as young vito in II.
 
addiesin said:
Anarchemist said:
The opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy must have used this tech to de-age Kurt Russell. IMO it worked really well. 
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It didn't. That film used much more expensive frame-by frame manual de-aging involving VFX artists watching a lot of younger Kurt Russell's film appearances, and a stand-in on-set for lighting and skin reference. The stand-in was actually the actor who played the main character from the film Heavyweights, a favorite of mine in my youth. The VFX artists basically paint away the aging by hand. It's impressive and tedious. 

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I had no idea--I assumed it was this same tech. Well, I was def impressed with the result. I have not seen Endgame or this allegedly terrible de-aging of Micheal Douglas. I think there's a scene in one of the Iron Man movies where they de-age Robert Downey Jr, and though I in no way studied it, I remember thinking it was pretty good too.
I hated the Carrie Fisher face-replacement in that recent Star Wars sequel, and have seen much much more convincing replacement in porn.
 
I’d say the Kurt Russell one is among the better efforts but it still throws me deep into the uncanny valley. I don’t like any of these. Maybe I’m just sensitive to this sort of thing more than most.

 
Yeah so the de-aging is actually different than deepfakes for now, but considering the difference in price, millions vs basically free, I can totally see this process taking over a big chunk of the de-aging industry within five years, assuming it remains legal, and the actors in question have enough reference material available.

As of yet, no feature film has used deepfake tech to de-age or face swap anyone.
 
Moe_Syzlak said:
I’d say the Kurt Russell one is among the better efforts but it still throws me deep into the uncanny valley. I don’t like any of these. Maybe I’m just sensitive to this sort of thing more than most.

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Interesting! Some were terrible, but others were not. The Peter Cushing one is most interesting since it brings back a dead actor most successfully IMO. 
I'm actually pretty apprehensive about this tech too; it opens up a lot of possibilities. It seems like a few years back, maybe when Forrest Gump was out, there was also a controversy about using Fred Astaire in a commercial where he was dancing with a vacuum cleaner, or similar.
Imagine if Tarantino had used DeepFakes tech to put the real Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood? Of course we'd have to get into copyright issues about ownership of a dead celeb's likeness. Though if done as parody, I think that changes things legally.
I am really curious to see how this plays out, beyond all those fake porn videos of Sansa Stark I mean.
 
This video shows an interesting breakdown of the deepfaking process.

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I think that deepfaking would allow new scenes in prequel edits to be more convincing, with the original actors being deepfaked back in.
 
Voice deepfakes are becoming common now, with some interesting results.

 
The voice there is actually more realistic to me than the video.
 
Wow, some of those shots/line reading are truly uncanny... and completely convince me that, as much as I like Cruise in lots of his roles, he would have made for an entirely unbearable Tony Stark.
 
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