>the VFX required to de-age the actors continues to worry him. De Niro’s present day appearance and his de-aged look will be mixed up throughout the movie
>“Why I’m concerned, we’re all concerned is that we’re so used to watching them as the older faces,” Scorsese said. “When we put them all together, it cuts back and forth….Now, it’s real. Now, I’m seeing it. Now, certain shots need more work on the eyes, need more work on why these exactly the same eyes from the plate shot, but the wrinkles and things have changed. Does it change the eyes at all? If that’s the case, what was in the eyes that I liked? Was it intensity? Was it gravitas? Was it threat?”
I fucking hate this de aging shit. It's useless way of spending a shitton of money. Why not just hire actors? The CGI is gonna look dated in couple years and even if the movie is good the CGI is gonna ruin it. The deaging might look good now but it'll still be uncanny and De Niro will have that "old man walk" like Sam Jackson in Captain Marvel. His face looked young but when he moves you can see he's an old man.
also why the fuck didn't they just cast Wyatt Russell in the Gotg 2 flashback rather than that fuckign creepy uncanny valley wax Kurt Russell.
I don't even know why they're deaging. they're no significant time jumps in the book
Jose Russell
to fund scorsese's coke habit
Bentley Morales
I could've told them this was a bad idea. In fact, I'm sure a retarded monkey that had a brain transplant from a frog could've told them that. It's a shock no one identified it was stupid prior to pre-production.
Easton Davis
He looks like one of the Edgerton brothers.
Luke Gutierrez
did they forgot to cg out De Niro's manlet shoes
Zachary Diaz
because 80-year-old actors are playing 50-year-old characters
Evan Stewart
I fucking can't stand watching the trailer of Gemini Man. Is Hollywood saying that they don't have good young actors?
Isaac Ramirez
So the whole thing is practically a CGI animation movie.
Liam Gray
kids ain't gonna rape themselves, user
Chase White
You should be concerned for the movie itself This is gonna be another derivative mediocrity
>$200m on a crime movie >why? The $200 million isn’t being spent on the crime movie. The $200 million is being spent to orove to the public, that CHi can be used to convincingly change one persons face to anothers, or to age or de-age someone’s appearance. Showing that it is possible to create realistic fake videos us needed to disprove videos that might get released showing politicians in compromising situations.
>Why not just hire actors? Older actors have more clout, and more box office appeal due to past iconic roles. If you can prove the de-aging vfx software can work, it might lower the cost of completion insurance, And make it easier to greenlight a film with an aging actor who no longer looks as good, or who may gave other health issues. They may even have it in mind to have younger actors play most of the part, then have the older actor say the lines, And possibly film the actors face, And de-age the face, And then graft it on to the younger actor.
Anthony Hughes
midge
John Davis
Remember ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ One of the points of that film, was to show it was possible to make an entire film on a green/blue screen soundstage, with all the background computer generated. This is probably partly for the same reason.
Justin Ward
Don't want to deal with de-aging characters?
STOP MAKING FUCKING MOVIES ABOUT THE PAST AND PUTTING OLD FUCKING ACTORS INTO THE LEAD ROLES, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS.
Jordan Roberts
It's called taking risks, pushing the envelope, experimenting etc. etc.
Michael Cox
I thought Netflix's userbase was mostly zoomer single women. Do they even care about Scorsese and his geriatric actors playing in some mafia flick?
Zachary Jenkins
>It's useless way of spending a shitton of money.
No. Wrong lecture. Walk in Hollywood shoes here user: this tech has the potential to bring a colossal shit ton of money. Think infinite Indiana Jones with prime Ford. Think infinite James Bond with peak Sean Connery. In the future it might in part relegates actors to props in some respect, it also poses a lot of copyright challenges in it's own right. What happens the day when Disney makes a romcom starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Hanks? who gets the money? who greenlits this? More importantly: do virtual avatars have an union or a guild? lmao this stuff is going to be hysterical, you just wait user.
This. Look at clint eastwood, he knows he old as fuck and casts himself in rolls that HE DIRECTS about an old guy being old. Then you have Scorsese who aparently bumps into robert and al at the NY farmers market every week and they all get an al dunkachino and laugh at their millions of dollars and failed children.
Levi Diaz
the world economy will collapse before we experience all that in it's entirety
Yeah...hysterical until politics get involved. Once it gets affordable the amount of disingenuious retoric all over youtube and legal ramifications, combined with a generally retarded public mass...will be our real super volcano.
Would be harious if it wasnt terrifying.
Jackson King
money laundering scheme
Levi Smith
because it's 10x cheaper to pay a gook doing de aging shit instead of paying for an actor
How do i get my hair that nice without gel? Mines the same length
Jonathan Sanchez
Thats the kicker, its getting to the point when you dont even need the actor. Carrie Fisher is fucking dead my bro...but shes totally going to be in IX. The actors no longer matter.
They dont even need RDJ to play Iron Man anymore.
Samuel Carter
shit poem
Austin Myers
it's not the fucking twenties, we know enough ways to make a good movie experimentation for the sake of experimentation is just wanking
Colton Butler
Its bigger than just Hollywood. Deep fake technology is going to destroy our society. Imagine never being able to know if a video, the only means by which non-local reality is visualized nowadays, is faked or not. It really would be a "post-truth" world.
I don't think they could de-age her, it would have to be full CGI
Camden Jackson
Just like Lohan...damn.
Parker Murphy
Blockchain and/or ai analysis will be used to verify authenticity
Ryan Price
Literally everyone said this from the outset. I'm struggling to think Scorsese would actually have committed to this project without seeing very clear proof that the technology can work in the circumstances they want it to (ie. a couple of demo test shoots with DeNiro from the more cgi-heavy scenes)
This was a film that was always going to be made or broken depending on whether the tech worked or not
Juan Gomez
Then you have a fascinating new dynamic. Who wrote the software?
Adrian Roberts
Huh, I didn't realise that. I thought they just wanted to make a very weirdly-stylised film
Cameron Rodriguez
mobception
Matthew Phillips
how do you deage chin fat, big guts, old man hands, old man voices, hunched backs etc??
Jeremiah Barnes
Have you seen Rogue One?
Hunter Scott
not a cucksoy neckbeard sorry
Liam Clark
Are the shoes part of his character?
Ethan Williams
>Why not just hire actors? Because the trend is to make the same thing over and over again, that way you can encompass every generations without problem and thinking too much. Singers are brought back from the dead, film sagas never fucking end, etc...
Bentley Turner
prefixsoy ssoy
Ian Campbell
The character he's playing was 6'4
Noah Watson
Onions
Jack Price
onions and onions
Jeremiah Long
onions
Ayden Evans
It's not a movie about crime, the movie itself is a crime, primarily for laundering shekels. Read more E. Michael Jones.
Oliver Gonzalez
Why is DeNiro wearing his on set platform shoes as the character in a promo shot? Are we supposed to believe a hitman wears platforms lmao?!
Isaiah Russell
>Remember 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ Reminder: that director literally never worked again.
Jordan Parker
>using the same actors for 60+ years and possibly after they are dead
Very innovative.
Ethan Sanchez
>What happens the day when Disney makes a romcom starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Hanks? who gets the money? Babbyfag doesn't realize Zemeckis did a Tales From the Crypt episode starring a semi-digital Humphrey Bogart back in the 90s that was a huge deal
Nathan Powell
it is strategic to condition the masses so that when all the pedo videos are released all the criminals will claim it is special effects. they know what they are doing and getting ahead of all the pedophiles in hollywood getting arrested.
Spend $300 million to make your actors young, but your lead actor wears clown shoes to be taller. Why not digitally tall-ify him?
Adrian Brown
>colossal shit ton of money more like "it's gonna devalue the star system forever" get me a computer and a phone camera and Jimmy Stewart can be the star of my grampa 90th birthday party, it will be as glamourous as an instagram filter. Would you pay a ticket to see a $200M blockbuster that looks like an instagram filter?
William Howard
grotesque
Jordan Watson
No this is reddit spacing.
Henry Edwards
>Thinking the videos will even be released Kek
Lucas Ward
That would be a lot more work I guess, they'd have to do what they did with Thanos
Joke is on them for not studying anatomy and requesting vfx people to do their work without grasping at the basic concepts
Andrew Ramirez
Reading about him made me feel a bit sad because the higher ups in Hollywood were inviting them to meetings and all that shit because they were impressed with the technical achievements
Dylan Nelson
The film spans several decades, it's about old man looking back at his life so it makes sense.
Charles Rogers
Actually a hitman might do that, and wear oversized footwear in general.
Kayden Price
>70 years ago Coppola cast DeNiro as a young Brando and the movie was fucking awesome >nowdays it's all about computery shit
Austin Cruz
>that video of X doing Y is true! >actually it was proved by J that is fake >J are Jews! And the cycle goes on.
Jace Russell
Damn it Snyder stop it with the Christian iconography already.
Jose Gray
What is Pachino’s stance trying to convey?
Charles Gray
This is Al Pacino?
Jason Jackson
Yes, he plays Jimmy Hoffa
Xavier Evans
Who?
Parker Hernandez
Ruh roh
>This long-delayed film directed by an aging permanent A list director will finally premiere in about two months. Three aging A-list actors are featured in starring roles. This group is so far past their prime, that even the concept of a big-budget film in this genre today would be laughable. That is, to everyone except the streaming giant. Yet another colossal waste of money, but the streaming service has already sent signals out that they will spare no expense, legal or not, to try and buy as many awards as possible, for this white elephant of a film.
>that director literally never worked again he would have been perfect for the MCU
Kevin Diaz
patrician eyeballs will always tell the difference, unless there’s some kind of brain program or filter that fucks up your judgement. Deepfakes don’t look as good as tech dorks like to say it does.
He did manage to do his dream movie though. Despite being a bad director, he did bamboozle Hollywood long enough for them to shell cash for his movie.
Henry Gonzalez
Why the fuck did he even have to cast these old fucks anyway
Josiah Davis
>there are good young actors nope!
Jordan Gomez
Part of the reason why people watch movies is because they like emotionally connecting with their favorite actors. A young CGI John Wayne would only be a novelty because the viewer would know that he's dead. It'd be like watching a ghost, or a cartoon.
Jace Cooper
So is De Niro the first actor to be aged up and then de-aged?
David Flores
Well they are old in that part of the film. Look at De Niro's shoes that's funny.
Asher Richardson
Ruining an otherwise potentially great movie by using tens of millions of dollars to digitally de-age your geriatric friends because you can instead of just hiring good young actors might be peak boomer
Daniel Carter
Daily reminder that Oscar "Based" Isaac has already played a peak Pacino style role and crushed it but ok lets watch computers act instead
Uncut Gems this year has Adam Sandler doing a bit of a Pacino impression based on the one clip that had been available online before they took it down.
Wash it regularly, apply conditioner, get it trimmed regularly, blow dry, apply product (not gel, go with american crew forming cream or similar hair cream).
If you can't do all that, just cut it short and save yourself from looking homeless.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
Wait until he blames political correctness for it flopping. Then we're in boomer world.
His bag of tricks is deeper than anybody's but he's an old man that doesn't have a fucking clue. His last "gangster" movie was the Depahted which comes off like a self-parody.
