Disney hasn’t been shy about using CGI to de-age actors in their films, like with Kurt Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 or Carrie Fisher in Rogue One, but they didn’t go that way with Harrison Ford for Solo: A Star Wars Story. It would have likely been a challenge to have a performer in their 70s play themselves when they were in their 20s for an entire movie. But if you wonder what it would have been like to see the original scruffy nerf herder in his pre-rebellion days, a deep learning A.I. program has shown us what it would have looked like. It automatically put Ford’s face in the movie, and it looks really good, especially for Alden Ehrenreich.
This was cool to see (and makes the whole Superman/mustache fiasco that much more inexplicable), but not because it showed us what Harrison Ford would have looked like in Solo, but because it highlights we already knew.What other movies and with what other actors would you love to see this A.I. program applied to? Tell us in the comments section below.
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