George Lucas Wants to Resuscitate Dead Actors Using Computers [FALSE RUMOR - SEE POST #53]

NBC Bay Area ^ | December 7, 2010

[EveningStar]

From the horrible ideas department comes the news from George Lucas that he's buying "the film rights to dead actors." You know, so he can resurrect them virtually for upcoming movies.

[EveningStar]

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[Army Air Corps]

Mr. Lucas is a nutter.

[Williams]

I bet they are turning over in their virtual graves.

[Califreak]

Don’t we already have enough zombie movies?

[KoRn]

Awesome! Maybe he’ll bring back Obi-Wan without the blue glowy aura.

[Paved Paradise]

Spare us.

[The Comedian]

3 words why George Lucas should never be allowed near a camera again:

Jar Jar Binks

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Viking2002]

On one hand, who wouldn't like to see Spencer Tracy shove a grapefruit into the mug of one of these current Hollywood piglets? On the other hand, I bet there wouldn't be a one of them who wouldn't rise from their graves and shriek like the ghost of Jacob Marley over the shitty scriptwriting they had their doppelgangers hijacked for.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[BuckeyeTexan]

The Screen Actors’ Guild will lose their minds.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Bogart staring in “Ski Patrol II?” I think not.

[PetroniusMaximus]

I don’t know...

I think it might be more appropriate for corpses to deliver some of George’s dialog.

“Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo? So long ago when there was nothing but our LOVE?!”

[Tzimisce]

As someone who would love to work in film, I am opposed to this idea.

[GraceG]

Great, we can finally have a new Marx brother movie.

We will have: Obammy Marx, Castro Marx, and Karl Marx togethr on the big screen.

[Artemis Webb]

"Mr. Lucas is a nutter."

What's a "nutter" to some is a visionary to others. Lucas is arguably the most influential film maker of all time in terms of contributions to film making technology.

Of course then there's "Howard the Duck".

[Williams]

James Cagney with the grapefruit.

[Joe 6-pack]

Laurence Olivier (d. 1989) had a bit part in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

This is evil.

[Mr. Jazzy]

He is not talking about something that hasn’t already been done.

“Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”, a film from 2004, featured the Late Sir Laurence Olivier as the villain, and HE died in 1989! Using enough old images to develop a computer clone, CGI could manipulate long dead actors like Clark Gable to play in, at first, animated features and then, as the technology progresses, the appearance of (forgive me,) LIVE action/interaction with currently ALIVE actors.

I am no fan of Lucas, but in this case, he is just creating the rules for a future battle with the estates of dead actors. Smart business.

[Army Air Corps]

Yes, he has contributed much. But in later years he has become a nutter.