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Cool photos. Great to see Banderas is going to be an ally of Indy's, I can sense great chemistry there (and hopefully no betrayals...)
Be careful what you wish for...recall IJATKOTCS ? (there's that ridiculously long title again...)
Some guy with a sailor hat and deck shoes, on a jetty by a boat. I'm going to guess he's a sailor! :)
I'd rather have Skull than not have it though.
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If they want to do it right, the process is extremely time-consuming.
Of course, and it's worth noting that the process used in the Irishman was for 1000s of shots (many of them closeups).
And using an experimental method that didn't allow the VFX team to actually capture the actor's faces with special camera rigs or tracking dots.
Luckily, from the set photos we've seen, we know that this film is going to be using tracking dots for the de-ageing scenes and likely not for the majority of the film.
I'm more glad about this delay because of things like the scenes filmed in Glasgow, where Harrison Ford was 100% not present for the filming because of his injury, and they'll have to paste his face onto the double's.
If not done extremely well, it could risk looking mind-bogglingly awful, so the more time the better. Plus, having over a year for post-production will do wonders for the movie's effects in general.
One of the reasons why CGI looks so off in a lot of recent blockbusters is because it's rushed out in less than half a year to meet an insanely unrealistic deadline.
Ford looks amazing as usual. I do hope he moves well. He was still fluid in Skull, but in Force Awakens I thought his movement was noticeably aged… but that may have just been that movie, he did have his leg broken. I didn’t really notice it in new Blade Runner.
I think that is a benefit of having this made by Disney: with the Marvel movies they seem to be mastering this and I'm sure this will be the best example of de-ageing we've seen so far.
Hopefully they'll be able to use the extra time (it's not always the case because the SFX teams may well just be scheduled to move onto the next thing); and I guess that may be part of the reason why we saw the production start with WW2 scenes - so they have as much time as possible doing the de-ageing bits.
I agree with this. I enjoyed the film, but in no way did I believe that De Niro was as young as he was supposed to be in certain points of the film. As you said - there's much more than removing a few wrinkles. He still moves like an older man. The scene where he beats up the shopkeeper sticks in my mind as something that unintentionally gave me a chuckle. Still a fantastic film overall, but I couldn't shake the feeling that the deaging took me out of it a bit.
Regarding Blade Runner 2049, I won't spoil it here, but there's a major reveal in the last act that involves CGI recreation. The scene itself took a lot of months to render, especially as Denis Villeneuve was extremely disappointed by the CGI recreation in the final scene from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which looked indeed terrible, and wanted to get things right at all costs for his film. And the end result is in uncanny valley territories, which is exactly the thing he tried to achieve.
One can dream.
For example, Clint Eastwood and William Shatner, both men are in their 90’s and while older Clint still looks like Clint, while Shatner hardly resembles his younger self. The Digital artist would have a relatively easier time de-aging Clint. Harrison Ford is on the cusp of 80 but he still looks like Harrison Ford. I’m excited to see an in his prime Indy.
How about Indiana Jones 7 and 8, with a young Harrison Ford? Doable! Or bringing back Connery as the next Bond? Doable. Far out, perhaps...but hey, they are bringing James Dean back, so why not?