A new movie about a man befriending a dog during the Vietnam War intends to have a computer generated James Dean for its co-star.
, which Dean anchored alongside Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Without any say in the matter, Dean's reanimated, virtual body will march and shoot for South African producer Anton Ernst and actress Tati Golykh, both first-time directors feature onErnst and Golykh obtained rights to Dean's image from his family. Canadian special effects companies Imagine Engine and MOI Worldwide will create a puppet of the dead actor, which will be voiced by another actor doing an imitation of Dean.
"We searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role of Rogan, which has some extremely complex character arcs, and after months of research, we decided on James Dean," Ernst told The Hollywood Reporter."We feel very honored that his family supports us and will take every precaution to ensure that his legacy as one of the most epic film stars to date is kept firmly intact.
While previous films have experimented in filling minor roles with dead actors who can no longer object—most notably Peter Cushing's return as a stiffer, waxy-visaged Grand Moff Tarkin inopens the floodgates to further exploitation of dead talent. "This opens up a whole new opportunity for many of our clients who are no longer with us," Mark Roesler, CEO of celebrity estates-holder CMG Worldwide told The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to Dean, CMG Worldwide holds the likeness rights to other dead actors, who may now have the"whole new opportunity" to have their empty bodies paraded on-screen, including Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeves, Jack Lemmon andstar Ingrid Bergman. Ernst even raised the possibility of puppetering a dead Nelson Mandela on-screen.has a planned worldwide release date of November 11, 2020, to coincide with Veteran's Day.
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