Tom Hanks has discussed the possibility of his career continuing after he ’s dead , thanks to advance in unreal intelligence activity ( AI ) .
Hanks , famed for films fromThe Green MiletoForrest Gump , told theAdam Buxton Podcastthat there are already people across the industry talk over the legal ramifications of " my face and my articulation and everybody else ’s being our intellectual holding " .
He told comedian Adam Buxton that the issue had been " hang around " ever since his image and information was captured for the filmPolar Express .
" We saw this coming , " Hanks recite Buxton . " We saw that there was move to be this power [ … ] to take zeros and single inside a data processor and turn it into a face and a fictitious character . Now , that has only originate a billion - fold since then and we see it everywhere . "
" It is a bona fide possibility right now – if I wanted to – I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old from now until kingdom come . "
attempt have already been made to rise dead thespian on the silver screen . In 2019 , Magic City Films denote plans to create a Vietnam War - era drama starring the image of James Dean , who died in 1955 , and received an onlinebacklash .
“ We experience very honored that his family supports us and will take every caution to ensure that his legacy as one of the most epic film mavin to date is kept firmly intact , ” producer Anton Ernst said in a statement seen byVarietyat the time . “ The family views this as his fourth movie , a flick he never get to make . We do not intend to get his fan down . ”
Tech for replicating thespian as they seem in their youth has creep into mainstream films and television set in recent years , including Harrison Ford in the upcomingIndiana Jonesfilm , and Mark Hamill , whose image was placed on top of avirtually identicalactor .
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Hanks seems resigned to a time to come where anybody ’s image , including his own , may be used to makemovies .
" Anybody can now recreate themselves at any age they are by means of AI or deepfake engineering . appear , I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that ’s it , but my performances can go on and on and on and on , " he said in the interview . " And outside of the understanding that it ’s been done with AI and deepfake , there ’ll be nothing to order you that it ’s not me and me alone . "
