TelevisionI'd be okay with this only if Gene signed off on it while he was alive. "Consent of his estate" doesn't cut it for me.
If that's the case for a show such as this, and people want to see this, then who am I to question it? It's not for me, but many things aren't.
Bruce Willis sold the rights to his digital version. Yes, he was under duress at the time, but he wasn't incompetent, so I'm okay with them making another Die Hard, if that's what they want to do. I wouldn't see it, but some might.
I imagine the thinking goes, "I'll be dead, I don't care, and if my loved ones can make some scratch off my image, then so be it." That's how I'd feel about it, and would sign whatever was needed to allow this to happen.
Whether this becomes a common practice all depends on how many people pay to see it.
I’d rather rewatch the original. Screw this crap.
Ghoulish.
While it isn't the best movie ever, more people should really watch The Congress in relation to this type of problem. I knew when I saw that film back in 2013, that this was going to happen at some point in the future, similar as with the movie Her and its scenarios. And here we are.
What if they just hired an actor to play his part?
Why would you ever fucking resort to ai.
Because they want to wear us down until we no longer bother to fight it. In the long run, they'll be able to do it for virtually everything, and not have to pay a dime to expensive actors.
With the flops they've been putting out, I think we can out-last them.
Not if we don't buy it. You can fix the market, but if there's no demand, the company can't change that. You can't force people to watch a TV show, or play video games.
I assume it's cheaper and easier to use AI.
Most sensible reason out of the bunch.
Because studios are creatively bankrupt.
Not only can they not conceive of making something original, but they can't even imagine retreading old ground without the exact same cast.
I commonly refer to Hollywood (mostly Disney) as the Dead Horse Beating Industry.
I dunno. I saw this play and it changed my opinion. You know The Music Man? I got to see it on stage with the woman who played the librarian love interest in the film in the cast. Her son was playing the lead in the play. Her part in the play had a lot less stage time. But it was really special to see both her and her son (who she was pregnant with during filming).
That brought me around on the cameos.
If I were an actor I would be making it real fucking clear in writing to everyone I was related to that this shit is not okay and to never ever sign off on it.
Might as well exhume his corpse and start puppeting that.
That'd be dope for the tunnel scene.
There's no earthly way of knowing
which direction we are going.
Careful, Netflix just might do that.
Gene Wilder in the reboot of Weekend at Bernie's, coming summer 2026
For as much as Gene Wilder already resented this role, I'm pretty sure he's about to exhume himself and send Netflix's CEO down the bad egg chute.
Edit: I was big, big wrong. Please see below.
Huh? How do you mean he resented the role? I've only ever seen him saying he was passionate about playing wonka
Oh, I completely misremembered. I'm really sorry: it was Dahl who loathed the 1971 film, and Wilder put a lot of his own feedback into the role.
From The Guardian:
Dahl himself would be exasperated over the 1971 film’s endurance. Though he was nominally billed as its screenwriter, his original adaptation was scarcely detectable beneath all manner of uncredited rewrites, and he was vocal in his disdain for the result, Wilder and all. His list of grievances was long: Dahl had wanted the arch British peculiarity of Spike Milligan or Peter Sellers for Wonka, he was unhappy with the film’s foregrounding of Wonka over Charlie, he resented plot alterations and additions that muddied the cautionary neatness of his original tale, and he wasn’t a fan of Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley’s perky song score.
Honestly, that makes me feel even shittier about the AI Gene Wilder now.
I'm with you. I'm confident Wilder would never have been okay with it at all.
As they fucking should. Disgusting
