Val Kilmer will appear in a new movie as an AI recreation approved by his family

https://piefed.ca/c/movies/p/601588/val-kilmer-will-appear-in-a-new-movie-as-an-ai-recreation-approved-by-his-family

Val Kilmer will appear in a new movie as an AI recreation approved by his family

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Everyone involved is going to hell

That would be Val Kilmer’s estate, his family, and specifically his daughter who have all given their blessings and approvals.

You want Val Kilmer’s daughter to go to hell?

Yes
You’re not a flip flipper, I’ll give ya that!
Nah I’m a flap flopper
You leave my flap alone!
Why would that make it different at all?

I’ll say this, if there are people that actually love me and care for me and they find a way to make money out of my corpse, then they have my full approval.

If they are rat bastards that hate me and are just trying to reconstitute my organs for mass consumption, then I hope they go below the boilerplate of hell directly into the fire that heats hell itself.

Val Kilmer is dead and will not be appearing. A simulacrum of Val Kilmer will.

Companies will rob the graves of musicians and actors and say they are ā€œappearing.ā€

Well, media is ā€œappearingā€ in my hard drive a lot more these days.

ā€œDespite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted,ā€ Voorhees told Variety.

We’ll obviously never know for certain whether Kilmer himself would have approved of this project. His daughter Mercedes Kilmer said she supported the film, and noted that her father was ā€œa deeply spiritual manā€ who resonated with a ā€œstory of discovery and enlightenment.ā€

So there is no evidence that this is what he would have wanted, and Voorhees just said that? When I read that first bit I thought maybe he’d given his blessing before his death, but apparently not. I obviously don’t know what he would have wanted, and I hope his family is correct, but even if he authorized it, I think it’s gross. I don’t like actors for their faces, I like what they bring to the role and AI at least currently does not have the ability to bring anything.

Can I just put this out there for posterity:

I do not consent to my likeness being DLSS5ed into a movie. I’m a nobody, but they might one day want to make a movie about a fat shut-in with bad teeth, and on that day, they’ll surely come a’knockin’ on my door. I AM NOT HOME. Let me rest in peace for fuck’s sake.

I don’t begrudge his family making bank, but everyone else involved in this project is in need of serious psychiatric intervention.

Wow. His family sounds lovely.
Well Kilmer had to choose between loosing millions or suing his father, and he stupidly lost millions.
Imagine transcending mortality to appear in some future commercial pushing some funko pop NFT pyramid scheme to produce shareholder value for people who claim net zero before they go jet setting to Epstein island because they bought a section of forest that was already there.

If that’s what Val Kilmer actually wanted, or agreed to, in sound mind, go for it.

We’ll never know what he actually did or didn’t want. I’ll probably never watch it.

[James Earl Jones](futurism.com/…/james-earl-jones-voice-rights-ai] made a similar choice.

Before He Died, James Earl Jones Signed Paperwork to Voice Darth Vader Using AI

A few years before his passing, the late, great James Earl Jones teamed up with an AI voice startup to immortalize his iconic baritone.

Futurism
This is kind of ā€œcontentā€ that is not even worth being pirated.
ā€œKill… meā€¦ā€