Last week, news broke that James Dean will star in a new movie\u201464 years after his death. A production company called Magic City got the rights to Dean\u2019s image from the late actor\u2019s estate and plans to bring him to the silver screen again thanks to the wonder (or terror) of CGI. Now, Dean, or the digitally resurrected version of Dean or whatever, will play the second lead in a Vietnam War movie called Finding Jack, with a living actor standing in as his voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unsurprisingly, the announcement inspired a wave of immediate backlash around Hollywood. Chris Evans called it \u201cawful\u201d and \u201cshameful,\u201d and Elijah Wood said, simply, \u201cNOPE.\u201d But it turns out the intense reaction was surprising to at least one person: Magic City\u2019s Anton Ernst, the Finding Jack director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ernst told the Hollywood Reporter in a new interview that he\u2019s gotten \u201cpositive feedback\u201d about the movie and that the Dean estate has been \u201csupportive,\u201d saying it will inspire \u201ca whole new generation of filmgoers to be aware of James Dean.\u201d He didn\u2019t see the overwhelming negativity coming. Per the Reporter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also brought up Carrie Fisher\u2019s appearance in the new Star Wars as an example of a way this posthumous CGI work can be done well, apparently missing the difference between honoring Fisher\u2019s legacy in a role she was already scheduled to play and plopping James Dean in some random war movie half a century after his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, this is extremely different, since Dean could never have stated he didn\u2019t want to appear in a film after his death because, uh, how would he have imagined that was even a possibility\u2014but whatever. Finding Jack is still headed into production with an expected release on November 11, 2020, whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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