Harrison Ford Says De-Aging in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ is “Best We’ve Seen Yet”
Disney has been no stranger to using artificial intelligence to “de-age” some of its older stars.
With the use of CGI, a young Luke Skywalker was able to appear in The Mandalorian Season 2 and The Book of Boba Fett (to mixed reviews), as did the likenesses of Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing (who had died years prior) in Rouge One.
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At a time when the use of artificial intelligence in the arts remains a hot-button topic, Disney has once again gone down that path, to de-age Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Harrison Ford On the Use Of AI
When asked about the use of both de-aging technology and artificial intelligence in general, Ford gave a measured response.
“When it’s helpful, I’m happy to have it, and when it’s not, I’m disappointed that we’ve chosen to use it,” Ford said.
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“I think it’s not a question of the technology, it’s how you use it,” he continued. “I mean, we have the capacity to generate more enemies than anyone would ever face before. More airplanes in the sky than anyone would ever see. But what happens is you lose human scale. And if you lose that, you lose the audience’s ability to experience, consistent with the characters, the story that you’re telling. It’s too easy.”
Ford Says De-Aging “It’s Real”
While he may be weary of the new ways of movie-making, Ford was impressed with the AI technology used by LucasFilm to de-age him in the upcoming film.
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“It is 40-year-old Harrison Ford, and that’s why it looks so good,” he said. “I’ve been working for LucasFilm most of my adult life. Every frame of the film[s] … that we’ve made together … could be mined with, here we go again, artificial intelligence. And they could find the right angle, the right light, so that it’s my mouth, my eyes, my face, married. It’s not photoshopped or anything. It doesn’t look that way. It’s real.”
“It was beautiful,” he concluded.
Earlier this month, Ford told SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle that “I feel very strongly that it’s the best example of de-aging, if you will, that we’ve seen yet.”
Cast member Harrison Ford poses. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
Audiences will have a chance to judge that statement for themselves, when “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” hits theaters on June 30.
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