![]() Reportedly, a recent Netflix contract sought to grant the streaming giant free use of a simulation of an actor’s voice. Hanks went on to describe how actors are taking steps to protect their likeness, stating: “I can tell you that there discussions going on in all of the guilds, all of the agencies, and all of the legal firms in order to come up with the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else’s being our intellectual property.” Surely, even the most enthusiastic fan would find it difficult to sit through the digital creation’s monotonous delivery and eerie smile for much longer. However, Star Wars is a franchise with a particularly nostalgic fanbase, and CGI Luke only appeared for a few minutes. ![]() Notably, the backlash to Mark Hamill’s role in The Last Jedi was far more negative than the reaction to his digital clone. Much of the Star Wars fanbase reacted with nostalgic delight to CGI Luke Skywalker, although many found it to be deeply cynical. “There are some people that won’t care, that won’t make that delineation.” “Without a doubt people will be able to tell, but the question is, will they care?” Hanks said. But he did wonder if the audience would notice. In his podcast interview, Hanks went on to acknowledge that a hypothetical AI Hanks would not be able to imitate a real performance. The digital clones that audiences have been subjected to so far haven’t exactly been captivating it’s hard to imagine a dead-eyed, AI-generated replica of Tom Hanks delivering a performance half as compelling as, say, Cast Away. Can an AI actor really deliver a performance? The resulting “performance” was just as dull and listless as one would expect. Young Luke Skywalker’s appearance in The Mandalorian was achieved using similar methods, with the character voiced by an AI, trained on the words of Mark Hamill. Young Princess Leia also made a brief appearance (minus Carrie Fisher) her digital doppelgänger created through a blend of stand-in, motion capture and archive material. Under Disney, Star Wars has been something of a testing ground for ghoulish experiments in digital necromancy and de-aging Rogue One saw a surprise cameo from Peter Cushing, who died in 1994, and was digitally resurrected as Grand Moff Tarkin.
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