Val Kilmer will appear in a new movie as an AI recreation approved by his family

https://www.techspot.com/news/111748-val-kilmer-appear-new-movie-ai-recreation-approved.html

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Val Kilmer is dead and will not be appearing. A simulacrum of Val Kilmer will.

MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 155d

"Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted," Voorhees told Variety.

We'll obviously never know for certain whether Kilmer himself would have approved of this project. His daughter Mercedes Kilmer said she supported the film, and noted that her father was "a deeply spiritual man" who resonated with a "story of discovery and enlightenment."

So there is no evidence that this is what he would have wanted, and Voorhees just said that? When I read that first bit I thought maybe he'd given his blessing before his death, but apparently not. I obviously don't know what he would have wanted, and I hope his family is correct, but even if he authorized it, I think it's gross. I don't like actors for their faces, I like what they bring to the role and AI at least currently does not have the ability to bring anything.

TheImpressiveX@piefed.social · 20 pts · 155d

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 155d (7 replies)

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mannycalavera@feddit.uk · -11 pts · 155d (6 replies)

That would be Val Kilmer's estate, his family, and specifically his daughter who have all given their blessings and approvals.

You want Val Kilmer's daughter to go to hell?

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 155d (3 replies)

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TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d (2 replies)

You’re not a flip flipper, I’ll give ya that!

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d (1 reply)

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Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d

You leave my flap alone!

markz@suppo.fi · 5 pts · 155d (1 reply)

Why would that make it different at all?

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 155d

I'll say this, if there are people that actually love me and care for me and they find a way to make money out of my corpse, then they have my full approval.

If they are rat bastards that hate me and are just trying to reconstitute my organs for mass consumption, then I hope they go below the boilerplate of hell directly into the fire that heats hell itself.

58008@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 155d

Can I just put this out there for posterity:

I do not consent to my likeness being DLSS5ed into a movie. I'm a nobody, but they might one day want to make a movie about a fat shut-in with bad teeth, and on that day, they'll surely come a'knockin' on my door. I AM NOT HOME. Let me rest in peace for fuck's sake.

I don't begrudge his family making bank, but everyone else involved in this project is in need of serious psychiatric intervention.

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 155d

Imagine transcending mortality to appear in some future commercial pushing some funko pop NFT pyramid scheme to produce shareholder value for people who claim net zero before they go jet setting to Epstein island because they bought a section of forest that was already there.

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 155d (1 reply)

Wow. His family sounds lovely.

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 155d

Well Kilmer had to choose between loosing millions or suing his father, and he stupidly lost millions.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 154d

“Kill… me…”

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d

No, no, no!

harsh3466@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 155d

If that's what Val Kilmer actually wanted, or agreed to, in sound mind, go for it.

We'll never know what he actually did or didn't want. I'll probably never watch it.

James Earl Jones did it with his voice.

Edit: fixed link formatting.

Edi 2: added that voice bit

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 1 pts · 154d

This was bound to happen. Just wait - if this goes unchecked it'll just get baked into actors' contracts.

Can't wait. "Die Hard 10" with an AI Bruce Willis saving an AI Audrey Hepburn. Whatever industry this is, it's gross.