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General => Misc. Fun Stuff => Topic started by: SRW1000 on January 04, 2026, 09:14:03 PM
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A lot has been made about this over the past couple of years, but I just watched a fan film that is absolutely amazing. It tells a short story about how Luke Skywalker got the green crystal needed to construct his lightsaber after The Empire Strikes Back:
https://youtu.be/SGJC4Hnz3m0
The modeling work, sound design, and staging are downright incredible.
What we are going to be seeing in the next five years will be remarkable.
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing :)
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That's amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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Interesting, and pretty cool on some levels I guess. It's well done, and a nice little short story.
I do have questions.
What are, or should, Mark Hamill and Liam Neeson be owed in terms of compensation for this kind of thing? This specific work may not be directly commercial but it's on YT, which does at least potentially pay something.
How much effort & resources did this take to create, and how many people involved?
How much of this will we start to see? Depending on answers to the above question on effort, I wonder if we start to get a flood of this kind of thing?
TBH, I already feel a bit overwhelmed with content that is just impossible to follow. I have a constant trickle of friends sending me little videos and stuff that I just don't have the time to keep up with, in addition to more "real" content like actual movies & TV shows, games etc.
We already have AI creators pushing nonexistent AI entities as if they are real people. I think there is at least one effort recently reported to create an AI actor / "star". Is an AI character different than an animated character, if it's not based on an existing human? Do we leave room for new human stars, or does AI become so easy to do we don't need them?
Get off my lawn... ;D
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Interesting, and pretty cool on some levels I guess. It's well done, and a nice little short story.
I do have questions.
What are, or should, Mark Hamill and Liam Neeson be owed in terms of compensation for this kind of thing? This specific work may not be directly commercial but it's on YT, which does at least potentially pay something.
How much effort & resources did this take to create, and how many people involved?
How much of this will we start to see? Depending on answers to the above question on effort, I wonder if we start to get a flood of this kind of thing?
TBH, I already feel a bit overwhelmed with content that is just impossible to follow. I have a constant trickle of friends sending me little videos and stuff that I just don't have the time to keep up with, in addition to more "real" content like actual movies & TV shows, games etc.
We already have AI creators pushing nonexistent AI entities as if they are real people. I think there is at least one effort recently reported to create an AI actor / "star". Is an AI character different than an animated character, if it's not based on an existing human? Do we leave room for new human stars, or does AI become so easy to do we don't need them?
Get off my lawn... ;D
Those are all great questions, and I don't think anyone has thought any of it out. We're hurling down a hill in a car that has no brakes right now.
It's partially answered by the recent Disney announcement that they are teaming up with OpenAI to allow fans to create their own short, using Disney intellectual property, and have them play on Disney+. Here's a link to that announcement: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Landmark Agreement to Bring Beloved Characters from Across Disney’s Brands to Sora (https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-openai-sora-agreement/)
This implies that Disney has already secured the rights to characters like Luke Skywalker and R2-D2. We know that James Earl Jones sold Disney the rights to his voice before passing. It is being offered as a fan film, so I don't know if they've monetized it. Has Hamill already signed those rights away? He recently addressed the concept in this interview with Variety: Mark Hamill on 'Star Wars' AI Deepfakes and 'The SpongeBob Movie' (https://variety.com/2025/film/news/mark-hamill-star-wars-deepfakes-flying-dutchman-spongebob-1236616930/)
As an aside, prior to the sale to Disney, Lucasfilm was very liberal in allowing fans to make their own films set in that galaxy far, far away. They even offered prizes and competitions back in those days, but the last version was in 2018.
There's no information about the creators of the video on YouTube. They have another video posted there, with Ewoks, that doesn't look anywhere near as good. It shows how much progress was made in just one month. How many people are involved is unknown at this point, as are the specific tools they're using.
How much will we start to see? Tons and tons. See the Disney announcement, they'll be promoting it and people will be making it. I'm sure that in that agreement with fans, Disney will retain all rights and ownership, so they will effectively monetize on people watching it, but also own all of the intellectual property rights for what's created. (This is my interpretation only, so do not take it as fact.) This will be tempting for all kinds of people to explore so there will be lots and lots produced; the vast majority will be garbage.
Yes, there already is an AI actress that films can hire. Her name is Tilly Norwood and was created by Xicoia, a company started by an actual actress.
Where is all of this leading? Who knows, but it's going full speed ahead. Hence the explosion of AI data centers being built around this country and the rest of the world. There are lots of ideas to be thought out and explored here, from implications for today's creators, to the types of things that may be created to skirt current laws, to propaganda for various social or political agendas. It will soon reach the point where AI is indistinguishable from real footage, with will either erode trust in the truth or lend credence to lies.
And it will take the courts and society a long time to figure it all out, if they ever do.
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A few updates to this story. The creator has started replying to comments and provided some additional information. Evidently, it's just one guy putting this whole thing together in about a month using different AI tools with lots and lots of trial and error. (Anyone familiar with AI tools will relate.)
Here's one of his comments that adds some insight: "It's mostly Kling and Hailuo! I would do stuff like over-write the prompt with things like "Natural, subtle emotion conveying reluctance, but with stoicism, subtle eye acting that conveys emotions the face does not", etc. A lot of trial and error. A LOT of generations.
Also a big thing is editing. If you look at how a lot of scenes are cut in a SW movie it's very very short cuts, 1.5 seconds for a look, etc, half a second. Mimicking that rhythm, having the confidence to cut away early in a shot helps the eyes not linger on anyone thing too long and buy into the illusion more. One thing about a lot of the AI videos is they are long, unbroken takes with lots of dialogue, and they are REALLY well done but your brain always kinda senses in the background this is not usually how scenes cut together. I tried to be ruthless in the cuts to mimic that pacing."
The music is a combination of Joel McNeely's Shadow of the Empire, and some AI generated music.
Someone asked about how Mark Hamill might feel about having his image used without permission or compensation, and the creator replied, "There's nothing to get paid, I'm not making any money either lol."
He made this without thinking about uploading it to YouTube and just did it to see if there was any interest. Now, at almost 250K views, he's putting the finishing touches on a 25-minute Star Wars video.
Now, the question remains as to whether or not Disney will step in at some point. Remember, they're the company that forced a father to take down a make-shift tombstone for his son that featured Spider-Man and forced three daycare centers to remove their hand-painted murals featuring some of the company's favorite characters. Will they do the same to this guy's short films? What will they make of the popularity of what he's created? The comments are overwhelmingly positive, with many fans my age comparing it favorably to what Disney has produced. Is that seen as a positive, reinvigorating fans? Or with anger and envy, decrying that a fan's AI production is gather accolades?
It's also worth mentioning that Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney over copyright infringement over AI and their characters, so there are definite legal wranglings that have yet to be decided. But the genie is already out of the bottle and it won't be contained so easily.
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So it was 1 guy, in just a month.
That's what I was getting at in one of my questions - a learning curve is there, but he got it done in a month. The tools are only getting better, obviously. And it sounds like it was an early effort. Hi might not have monetized this one - yet - but I bet the gears are turning for the next one. If not him, others will (and probably already are).
My biggest fear is that we are going to completely kill off the next generation of actors, musicians and other creative types who do real world performance. There won't BE a new Mark Hamill / Luke Skywalker, because people will keep using the old one who never ages. Next up, an AI remake of Solo, with a young version of Harrison Ford b/c Alden Ehrenreich wasn't up to snuff and nobody else ever will be?
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So it was 1 guy, in just a month.
That's what I was getting at in one of my questions - a learning curve is there, but he got it done in a month. The tools are only getting better, obviously. And it sounds like it was an early effort. Hi might not have monetized this one - yet - but I bet the gears are turning for the next one. If not him, others will (and probably already are).
My biggest fear is that we are going to completely kill off the next generation of actors, musicians and other creative types who do real world performance. There won't BE a new Mark Hamill / Luke Skywalker, because people will keep using the old one who never ages. Next up, an AI remake of Solo, with a young version of Harrison Ford b/c Alden Ehrenreich wasn't up to snuff and nobody else ever will be?
He hasn't monetized the video, but he has set up Patreon and BuyMeACoffee accounts to help defray some of his production costs. He's also stated that he'll be making a tutorial on how to create videos like this.
Your fears are well founded as production costs are going to be a fraction of making real movies.
I'll add some positive thoughts here, though. Keeping with the Star Wars themes, George Lucas had trouble getting any studio to back his movie until he was able to show them commissioned paintings by the great Ralph McQuarrie that gave life to the story.
In much that same way, young filmmakers can now use AI to create their own sizzle reels bringing their concepts to life. They'd also be able to use it to whip up their own concept art that could be used for real artists to flesh out. Or it could be used for casting to narrow down a list of 1000s of actors, inserting them directly into a costume and set to see how they would look onscreen. Along those same lines, it could bring down production costs for small films by letting them use actors, but create photorealistic sets and even costumes and makeup, further opening up opportunities to launch new visionaries.
I could also see it used as a springboard for new ideas, not to fully form a movie, but to offer suggestions that could be crafted into something original.
It's hard to predict exactly where it's all heading, but it will change filmmaking forever.
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It's hard to predict exactly where it's all heading, but it will change filmmaking forever.
Here is where it is headed
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Here is where it is headed
ROFL...you keep tickling my funny bone Barry :D
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In much that same way, young filmmakers can now use AI to create their own sizzle reels bringing their concepts to life. They'd also be able to use it to whip up their own concept art that could be used for real artists to flesh out. Or it could be used for casting to narrow down a list of 1000s of actors, inserting them directly into a costume and set to see how they would look onscreen. Along those same lines, it could bring down production costs for small films by letting them use actors, but create photorealistic sets and even costumes and makeup, further opening up opportunities to launch new visionaries.
I could also see it used as a springboard for new ideas, not to fully form a movie, but to offer suggestions that could be crafted into something original.
It's hard to predict exactly where it's all heading, but it will change filmmaking forever.
Thanks for the thoughts, Scott. The "sizzle reel" angle sounds like a good thing, if it leads to a movie with real actors as opposed to just creating AI characters and being done without human actors. I just don't see how, given the cost element, that doesn't become a big thing even if there's some initial lack of acceptance from older generations. I think the newer generations who are getting into it and will be born in a world with it, will not have nearly as much of a problem with it.
There's certainly an element of AI being a new tool that gives more possibilities and opens things up to people who may have good and creative ideas that wouldn't be able to easily get them out and seen before AI. That part should be a positive for fans and consumers in general. We'll probably also get an AI tool that can help us "scrape" the content as viewers and filter out the ginormous amounts of crap that will get generated.
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Thanks for the thoughts, Scott. The "sizzle reel" angle sounds like a good thing, if it leads to a movie with real actors as opposed to just creating AI characters and being done without human actors. I just don't see how, given the cost element, that doesn't become a big thing even if there's some initial lack of acceptance from older generations. I think the newer generations who are getting into it and will be born in a world with it, will not have nearly as much of a problem with it.
There's certainly an element of AI being a new tool that gives more possibilities and opens things up to people who may have good and creative ideas that wouldn't be able to easily get them out and seen before AI. That part should be a positive for fans and consumers in general. We'll probably also get an AI tool that can help us "scrape" the content as viewers and filter out the ginormous amounts of crap that will get generated.
I think you're right about younger generations and I share your same concerns. There's no stopping it though, so all we can do is try and instill a sense of appreciation for the classic ways of film production. That's an uphill battle, though. I know people in their 30s who refuse to watch anything that hasn't been created this century. :-\
I wouldn't count on AI to filter out stuff for you, though. Part of what drives this is a content glut made to satisfy a hyper consumption model. Scraping doesn't fit very well with that.
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To add a little positive news to this, Godzilla Minus Zero will be hitting theaters this November, and director/writer/special effects designer Takashi Yamazaki had this to say about AI in an interview with Variety (https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/godzilla-minus-one-director-takashi-yamazaki-ai-ves-awards-1236305429/) last year:
"It’s a very capable assistant or tool, as it stands right now, but it is not at the point where it can kind of take center stage and generate what humans can. Right now, it’s not in any of our pipelines because of that reason, but the speed at which AI evolves is just so immense that where it goes from here remains to be seen.
"Until recently, I’ve been still shooting on film and I like to use miniatures. So I know that someday we’re going to have to embrace and kind of work with AI, but I’m probably going to be one of the later ones because I do like working with older technology and techniques.”
Watch for him to change his mind, or be forced into using it, as an indication of where things are headed.
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The guy that made the first video I posted has released part 2:
https://youtu.be/KlVPwny_1qw
Keep in mind that this is one guy. Working at home. On a PC. In a matter of weeks.
The modeling work is inconsistent, but there are some shots that look amazing.
Movies will change forever based on AI.
For better or worse.
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Not bad. As you said, some of the effect shots need some work, but to be able to do that is amazing.
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I’m not sure au will change movies. In the whole
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I’m not sure au will change movies. In the whole
You're probably right. 90% or more of them will still be middling to bad ;)
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I’m not sure au will change movies. In the whole
After posting this, I found a YouTube interview with a guy who used to work for Lucasfilm and he was specifically discussing these little AI videos in the context of his background in animation.
Some of what he discussed was how much of what we end up seeing is a matter of compromise. Either due to time or money or both. He got down to the point of how many laser blasts they could put in a show. He also talked about how much time it took to do simple things that we take for granted, like walking through a door.
Now, look at that in the context of what AI can do. What would take a team weeks or months to do can now be done by one guy in that much time or less. Scale that with more people working on a project or taking more time to create something and the change is groundbreaking.
The other thing that he talked about was just how many levels of approval a project has to go through, on both the story and budget sides of things. AI eliminates all that meddling, for better or worse. It's literally taking the reins off of creators. They'll still need to have a great story idea and existing IP is likely off the table but given the right person with the right imagination we're looking at a production level that has been unthinkable until now.
As a side note, as my wife and I were watching this latest installment, I turned to her and said wouldn't it be something if the person behind these two Star Wars videos was George Lucas. I know that it's not but given his involvement with pushing the envelope and how he's never been the best with actors, this seems like something he would just love to play with.
Give these tools to a young George Lucas, and we may be shocked at what entertainment might look like in just a few years from now. No studio interference, no budget limitations, just pure on-screen imagination. I don't see how AI wont' be revolutionary.
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After posting this, I found a YouTube interview with a guy who used to work for Lucasfilm and he was specifically discussing these little AI videos in the context of his background in animation.
Some of what he discussed was how much of what we end up seeing is a matter of compromise. Either due to time or money or both. He got down to the point of how many laser blasts they could put in a show. He also talked about how much time it took to do simple things that we take for granted, like walking through a door.
Now, look at that in the context of what AI can do. What would take a team weeks or months to do can now be done by one guy in that much time or less. Scale that with more people working on a project or taking more time to create something and the change is groundbreaking.
The other thing that he talked about was just how many levels of approval a project has to go through, on both the story and budget sides of things. AI eliminates all that meddling, for better or worse. It's literally taking the reins off of creators. They'll still need to have a great story idea and existing IP is likely off the table but given the right person with the right imagination we're looking at a production level that has been unthinkable until now.
As a side note, as my wife and I were watching this latest installment, I turned to her and said wouldn't it be something if the person behind these two Star Wars videos was George Lucas. I know that it's not but given his involvement with pushing the envelope and how he's never been the best with actors, this seems like something he would just love to play with.
Give these tools to a young George Lucas, and we may be shocked at what entertainment might look like in just a few years from now. No studio interference, no budget limitations, just pure on-screen imagination. I don't see how AI wont' be revolutionary.
It should substantially lower the costs of making films, which have become much too expensive.
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Ars Technica has a good article (https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/02/why-darren-aronofsky-thought-an-ai-generated-historical-docudrama-was-a-good-idea/) on Darren Aronofsky's heavy use of AI in making a historical docu-drama series “On This Day… 1776.”
Among other things, a source on the story notes that it's still very difficult to "direct" the AI tool with prompts, with no good way of knowing how many "takes" will be required to get the desired result... and for it to be consistent enough to make a 2 hour movie instead of a short.
“It still takes a lot of work, and it’s not necessarily because it’s wrong, per se, so much as trying to get the right control because you [might] want the light to land on the face in the right way to try to tell the story,” the source said. “We’re still, we’re still striving for the same amount of control that we always have [with live-action production] to really maximize the story and the emotion.”
“It’s one thing to stay consistent within three minutes. It’s a lot harder and it takes a lot more work to stay consistent within two hours,” the source said. “I don’t know what the upper limit is now [but] the longer you get, the more things start to fall off.”
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I can't resist posting the latest Star Wars video that was posted in the Begger's Canyon series.
https://youtu.be/cwozNyX4-oI
A new guest star has been added that is a perfect in-joke for longtime Star Wars fans. Spoiler: He looks better here than his recent de-aged Hollywood franchise appearance.
One thing that comes to mind watching this is that it allows filmmakers total control over their creation. No studio notes, no marketing concerns, no salary constraints. That does raise all kinds of ethical considerations as actors have zero say in how their likenesses are used. This example is fairly harmless, but it doesn't take much effort to think of all kinds of unsavory content that could be made by those with questionable or twisted ideologies.
There's no telling what this evolves to over the next two to three years, but I don't think society is ready for it.
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That's the best he's done yet IMO. Very engaging and has me wanting to see more!
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That's the best he's done yet IMO. Very engaging and has me wanting to see more!
Glance through some of the YouTube comments and compare them to what people have been posting on the official Disney trailers for the modern Star Wars brand. The contrast is stark. He's definitely tapped into the type of content long-term fans would like to see.
Maybe the recent changes at Disney will give them a chance to course correct but call me skeptical. In the meantime, creators like this can help fill the void that's existed for the past decade or so.
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Another installment of the Begger's Canyon AI series:
https://youtu.be/Oyd_xFKbkw8
This one is a little more mixed in execution, but he's also being much more ambitious with this entry. Star Wars fans will find some rewarding surprises. I'd still consider this more of a tech demo, but the story is developing beyond what I would have expected.
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And on the moral/ethical side of things, we have this news from Variety: Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI: ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Trailer Brings Late Actor Back to the Big Screen (EXCLUSIVE) (https://variety.com/2026/film/news/val-kilmer-ai-as-deep-as-the-grave-trailer-1236722342/)
The filmmakers behind “As Deep as the Grave” have debuted the trailer for the upcoming historical drama, giving viewers a first look at the AI technology that was used to create Val Kilmer‘s performance.
Kilmer, who died in 2025 after battling throat cancer, was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, but was too sick to shoot his role. With the cooperation of Kilmer’s estate and his daughter Mercedes, the “As Deep as the Grave” team used generative AI to include the actor in the finished film.
Kilmer pops up numerous times in a trailer first shared on Wednesday at CinemaCon, the exhibition industry trade show being held this week in Las Vegas. The footage includes Kilmer at various ages — at one point, he’s a spectral, ghost-like figure; at another, he’s a dashing, 30-something man of the cloth.
“Don’t fear the dead and don’t fear me,” Kilmer tells a child at one point, kneeling down to look her straight in the eyes.
Coerte Voorhees, the film’s writer and director, and John Voorhees, the film’s producer and Coerte’s brother, argue that they have found an ethical way to use the controversial technology, because they have worked in concert with Kilmer’s family. They note that the film, which tells the story of Ann Axtell Morris, one of this country’s first female archeologists, and her excavation of the Canyon De Chelly in Arizona, resonated strongly with Kilmer.
““It was very much designed around him,” Coerte Voorhees told Variety last month. “It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties to and love of the Southwest…His family kept saying how important they thought the movie was and that Val really wanted to be a part of this.”
Coerte Voorhees revealed at CinemaCon that Kilmer’s role is substantial and his character will appear in over an hour of the movie.
There are fears in Hollywood that AI will eliminate acting jobs as studios search for ways to cut costs. But the “As Deep as the Grave” filmmakers insist that they only used the technology out of necessity and a deep desire to include Kilmer in their project. They also note that the production relied on SAG guidelines and compensated Kilmer’s estate for his appearance. The actor’s family provided archival material that the production used to create the performance.
In a statement, Mercedes Kilmer said that her father would have wanted to be included in “As Deep as the Grave.”
“He always looked at emerging technologies with optimism as a tool to expand the possibilities of storytelling,” Mercedes Kilmer said. “This spirit is something that we are all honoring within this specific film, of which he was an integral part.”
Kilmer’s AI-generated presence will attract a lot of attention for “As Deep as the Grave,” but the trailer also boasts epic-looking action. There are excavations in dramatic cliffside settings, shots of buffalo running majestically along a plain and images of a car trying to pass through rapids. The ensemble includes Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, Abigail Breslin, Tatanka Means, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Wes Studi and Finn Jones.
https://youtu.be/m1hwb-kB_7A
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Here's a new application of AI that @Barry may be particularly interested in:
Marvel Mastermind Stan Lee’s Voice & Likeness Resurrected By AI Company ElevenLabs
Stan Lee‘s estate is embracing the superpower of artificial intelligence.
The Marvel Comics mastermind’s voice and likeness will be resurrected by ElevenLabs, the AI audio company valued at $11 billion earlier this year. Lee died in 2018, aged 95.
Under a deal with the Stan Lee Universe, the comic book creator’s cloned voice will narrate some of his favorite books in the Eleven Reader app.
Stan Lee Book of the Month Club will debut with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, with another 11 books being adapted over the coming year. . . .
Furthermore, Lee’s likeness will be available on the ElevenLabs Image & Video Marketplace, enabling users to create the kind of cameos that cemented his association with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Music has also been created, inspired by the “aesthetic and energy” of his imagination.
“Stan always believed in meeting his fans where they were: in the pages of a comic, at a convention, or in a quick on-screen cameo,” said Chaz Rainey of the Stan Lee Universe.
“This partnership is a way of continuing that. Fans have always told us that when they read his comics, they hear the words in Stan’s voice, and now, thanks to ElevenLabs, we can make that a reality.”
Full article here: Stan Lee's Voice & Likeness Resurrected By AI Company ElevenLabs (https://deadline.com/2026/05/marvel-stan-lee-resurrected-ai-elevenlabs-1236922672/)
This one sits a little uncomfortable for me. I'm not sure Stan would have given his consent to this kind of usage, though part of me thinks he may have loved the idea.
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I'm curious to hear Barry's take on this, that's for sure!
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And in an unrelated development, here's another use for AI:
https://youtu.be/_ZdWZfe2vQw
I recall the concept of set extensions being discussed way back in the advent of HD broadcasts. The example they used was taking the I Love Lucy show and digitally reconstructing the sets to have them fill a 16x9 screen. That would have been an intensive and manual process, but now it can be done by a guy in his own home.
The colorization effect doesn't look all that much better than what Ted Turner did with the classic B&W movies back in the 80s. It doesn't work at all for me, and the B&W looks so much better.
At the same time, there's an entire generation that refuses to watch anything that's not in color.
And here's another example. The infamous Lon Chaney film London After Midnight has been lost for over half a century and all that remains are the script and some still frames. Using AI and those few remnants, the following has been created:
Classic Horror Films on X: "The first/best complete attempt at a AI reconstruction of the 1927 Lon Chaney film: 'London After Midnight' Real film stills and the original script were used. It's not a true copy, but it's all there is............... https://t.co/7Nt7LubI3l" / X (https://x.com/HorrorHammer1/status/2054062168664900074)
This is a fascinating attempt to have AI give life to the missing movie. There will be questions about the action, framing, facial expressions, etc. so at best, it's a recreation. But it's still amazing to see what was created.
This could be used for other films, as well. The Magnificent Ambersons was infamously taken out of Welles' hands and butchered in the editing room by RKO with the excised footage being destroyed. Rumors of the missing footage have circled ever since but never surfaced. I could see someone taking the script, existing footage, and soundtrack and recreating what they think Welles would have intended.
This is all a very grayish area. The original productions of the last two no longer exist, so they can't be seen. Is an AI recreation worth the time to make and watch? Or are we best off imagining what might have been?
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Actually, I am saddened by this. People are unique and we shouldn’t be able to copy them. Stan gave me the highest rank of a Marvel Fan And we emailed each other. I was a F.F.F. A Fearless Face Fronter. He often forgot what he had written in the 1960s and 70s and would ask me about that.
What they are doing with his image invoice is not only distasteful. It’s creepy. this illustration of mine was published when we lost Stan. it’s bottom caption tells you how I feel.
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Terminator 2 incoming
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Actually, I am saddened by this. People are unique and we shouldn’t be able to copy them. Stan gave me the highest rank of a Marvel Fan And we emailed each other. I was a F.F.F. A Fearless Face Fronter. He often forgot what he had written in the 1960s and 70s and would ask me about that.
What they are doing with his image invoice is not only distasteful. It’s creepy. this illustration of mine was published when we lost Stan. it’s bottom caption tells you how I feel.
Kind of off tangent to AI, but deeply related to Stan Lee, did you ever follow this documentary?
https://youtu.be/tj3Zl16M32o
The implications and footage are deeply alarming, although it echoes rumors that were circulating when he was still alive. It's just landed a distributor and release date, according to this article from The Hollywood Reporter: Stan Lee Documentary 'The Final Chapter' Lands Distribution (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stan-lee-documentary-the-final-chapter-lands-distribution-1236605950/)
The extent of the alleged abuse was covered back at the time, including in another article by The Hollywood Reporter back in 2018: Stan Lee Needs a Hero: Elder Abuse Claims and a Battle Over the Aging Marvel Creator (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/stan-lee-needs-a-hero-elder-abuse-claims-a-battle-aging-marvel-creator-1101229/)
If true, it would explain why the estate is so in favor or digitally reanimating Lee.
I would expect the documentary to hit streaming by the end of the year, although not on Disney+.