You have no doubt heard of by now the upcoming Vietnam War movie Finding Jack—which will (as of this writing) star a CGI-resurrected James Dean.
Dean’s “casting”—and the public furor that followed—brought up an interesting question.
Who “owns” James Dean?
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Haha, I’m just joking of course.
No, Star Wars: The Last Jedi VFX supervisor Ben Morris recently explained to Inverse how Lucasfilm does a digital scan on ALL actors in their movies…you know, “just in case”:
“We will always [digitally] scan all the lead actors in the film…We don’t know if we’re going to need them. We don’t intentionally scan them as an archive process. It’s for reference later.”
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