[Sgt_Schultze]

Ive got a feeling that with the rapid improvement in technology, the era of the highly paid actor is ending. CG animations are ever improving as computing power increases. The next thing will be reviving long dead actors in new roles.

Have you seen the newest voice manufacturing application from Adobe? Watch this to get a look at the way around prima donna actors. Couple this with animations, and the need to go on location diminishes. The next big Hollywood star may be a computer nerd in some studio in the middle of anywhere.

[TChad]

Thanks for that link. Amazing technology, but now we can't trust audio recordings to be real, just as we can't trust digitized photos to be real.

The technology will certainly be used in film production, and soon. One easy application: It will now be possible to change spoken dialog without reshooting a scene. That should be a real money saver.