Laurence Olivier....To be in the new movie "Sky captan and the world of tomarow"?

Yes...he is dead....but remember those ads awhile back that had like Steve McQueen and Marilyn Monroe? Well this is what they're doing with Laurence Olivier. This is interesting because this is the first time that kind of techniqe will be used in a movie.

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Olivier makes comeback from beyond the grave Staff and agencies Tuesday July 27, 2004 Laurence Olivier is to make his Hollywood comeback alongside Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in the sci-fi blockbuster Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It will be the Oscar-winning actor's first screen role following an enforced 15-year lay-off. The lay-off began, understandably enough, with his death in 1989. Thanks to the wonders of digital technology, Olivier will now be resurrected to "play" the role of a villainous overlord who commands an army of giant killer robots. The film will splice together old movie scenes and archive footage of the actor in his youth, although Olivier's classic clipped delivery will be voiced by another actor. Explaining the decision at the annual Comic-Con sci-fi convention in San Diego, Jude Law said that no living actor possesses the same gravitas and authority. "He plays my nemesis," Law told the news conference. "And he's referred to throughout the movie, so you know you're eventually going to see this bad guy. It builds up and you only see him in the last few minutes, and he's in hologram form." In recent years, classic stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen and Humphrey Bogart have been digitally resurrected to appear in television commercials. This is believed to be the first time the technique has been used in a feature film, although digitally manipulated images of Oliver Reed were famously used to complete work on Ridley Scott's Gladiator after the actor died midway through filming. Directed by first-time film-maker Kerry Conran, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a retro science-fiction romp, in which an Art Deco 1930s Manhattan finds itself threatened by killer robots. The film stars Law as Sky Captain Joseph Sullivan and Gwyneth Paltrow as intrepid reporter Polly Perkins. Angelina Jolie co-stars as a fiery flying ace. Olivier, hailed as the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1948 Hamlet, and a lifetime achievement Oscar in 1979. His best-loved films include Wuthering Heights, Spartacus, The Entertainer, Sleuth and The Boys from Brazil. His last (living) role was in Derek Jarman's War Requiem in 1988. Laurence Olivier was unavailable for comment.

From film.guardian.co.uk

Well....his voice will be dubbed over by another actor, but I think that it's a little odd and cool at the same time. What do you think of this? Will it catch on?

That is odd..........very......odd..........and disturbing.......

Wait...so this movie hasn't been released, tanked, and quickly shoved onto DVD yet?

Anyway yeah...I can't see a Shakespearian actor as a goofy sci-fi villain....then again, there WAS Alec Guinness in Star Wars...but that movie was, you know, good.

"..AND I SEE POOR VINCENT PRICE, FLOATING ON A TOILET CAKE, TELLING ME ABOUT 'THE HOOOOORRRORS OF AN UNFRESH BOWL' ".

Yeah..just..wow...

And lucas wants to put the guy playing anakin into the end of ROTJ..Yeah...I'm never buying another edition of those movies, ever.

I have two versions of empire strikes back (one in english, one french) on vhs. The hell with the new incarnations.

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Wait...so this movie hasn't been released, tanked, and quickly shoved onto DVD yet?

I'm shocked also. I also thought "open water" had bombed LAST SUMMER. Rather than coming out now.

I wonder what sort of contract the film's producers have with Olivier or his representative. Surely the Actor's Guild is not going to tamely allow for dead actors to replace living.

Pygmalion

I heard somewhere that Bruce Lee was going to make a comeback too. Did they cancel plans for his new movie, or has anyone else heard about it?

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Originally posted by Pygmalion I wonder what sort of contract the film's producers have with Olivier or his representative. Surely the Actor's Guild is not going to tamely allow for dead actors to replace living. Pygmalion

Didn't...they once cry foul over the possibility of digitized characters "replacing" flesh and blood actors?

Or am I REALLY off track.

What an odd thing to do.

I guess it's generating free press for them.

But why Lawrence Olivier? Seems like anyone likely to care would be just as likely to be offended.


Connie Willis is smirking somewhere in the midwest. And here I thought Remake was one of her fluffier books.

WTF? that movie looks cheesy enough, and makes me think twice about a big o movie, but now that the villian is pieced together from old clips, it has pushed the boundries of lameness.

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Originally posted by Zopwx2 WTF? that movie looks cheesy enough, and makes me think twice about a big o movie, but now that the villian is pieced together from old clips, it has pushed the boundries of lameness.

I half wanted to see it for pseudo big duo goodness.

That half...is pretty much gone, yeah.