Of course, it wasn't pure AI. They had another actor play the part and use CGI to make it look like Cushing.
Posted on 02/18/2026 8:12:42 AM PST by BEJ
I once predicted that the improvements in the realness of video games would never stop. That video games will look and act so real that we wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a game and real life. We will ask is that a real footbal game we're watching or is that a sports game being played? AI has delivered on that prediction to an astonishing way. Here is an example of how far AI has come.
https://youtu.be/jciMPgEI9dY
Now my question is will Hollywood ever produce new films from dead actors? Will there be new Humphry Bogart movies? Will there be a part two or a sequel to movies like Casablanca or The Maltesse Falcon? Technically it should be possible, just like Steve McQueen (seen on the link) could be in a sequel to the movie Bullet. AI has delivered on my prediction and we can be evetually look forward to watching new Star Wars or Terminator movies using the original cast as AI characters. I think this is very possible but will Hollywood do movies of this kind, or maybe these older characters are not relevent to today's audiences as are the current generation of actors. Any thoughts?
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Bogart’s Maltese Falcon was a remake.
If you ever see the original, it has many of the exact same lines — but it’s a little flat in comparison.
What I was hoping for from CGI and AI is a new capability to show accuracy in epic historical tales such as massive battles and fleets, modernizing castles and siege armies, the vast scale of large events and the accuracy of large scale sets and equipment and people.
Of course, it wasn't pure AI. They had another actor play the part and use CGI to make it look like Cushing.
The big stars have estates which would have to approve such AI shenanigans. If this really took off and became a thing it would just underscore how creatively bankrupt big entertainment is.
I didn’t know that. I think AI Borgart should go on to do other movies with Peter Lori and the Fat Man about the falcon. It’s good set of character and has a certain chemistry.
Yeah, a great historical tool! Definitely!
Actually it was the 3rd movie adaptation of the book. 1936 they did a comedic version titled Satan Met a Lady. With Bette Davis. She said it sucked.
There is a very short film that is currently going “viral” which features Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise having a fight on a rooftop. It’s all AI, it looks good, and it is running into problems because of Intellectual Property rights. Neither Pitt nor Cruise gave permission, so that’s a problem.
Depending on source materials, some AI projects might have to pay out a lot of money in order to get made.
Fred Astaire Dirt Devil Commercial 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3JzxlcKBs
the problem is that their images are not free and would have to be licensed.. and sooooo.. why bother.. only old folks remember Humphry.. and they do not want to see a version of him dancing in a tutu like the latest Dr Who.
Yeah, whoever owns Bogart’s likeness could actually make decent money selling it to Hollywood for use. Not only that there could be a whole new generation of movies that use dead actors likesess, as caharacters from the past, but again all this could be subject to copywrite considerations and who owns the estate.
Yup. It would be lucrative to whoever own the right to the likeness.
Yes. It could become a underground niche thing a new gener in movie making. In that case it might catch on.
” . .would just underscore how creatively bankrupt big entertainment is”
That bird has flown and is already made clear, look at Disney doing self loathing rehashes of their classic works with garbage woke narcissistic productions. What’s a few hundred million down the drain each time. Or look at Dr Who today, sad times.
It’s so bad, that I also have to wonder if this is merely the Communist Marxist playbook running today on autopilot to denigrate and destroy free Western art playing out in front of us all, versus them really just being this horribly untalented?
I fully expect to one day see Elvis, Clark Gable or Marylin Monroe and so on in a new movie, but likely commercials will arrive first. Why not, the technology is there or almost there, imagine another decade or two of advances. The family and Estates could benefit of course.
Would it be any good, doubtful (in my mind) as the human element creative life spark can never be replaced. What about an overlay of live actor movements to over come this weakness, I again would say doubtful, unreal is always fake,
However new AI stars are certainly on the way and they don’t sit in their trailers and sulk or make outrageous demands or show up late on set etc.,
This is what dropped this week out of China, I think this is more impressive, thought the fighting is so good compared to earlier models that it's all you can find clips of. Fighing has historically been basically impossible in AI vids, the anatomy got wrecked with extra arms appearing, backgrounds changing, etc. Hence the excitement about it here. But it does humans talking really well too.
The 1941 version of the Maltese Falcon with Bogart benefitted from the fast pace and short, quickly delivered lines of the Warner Brothers film noir style. To meet the demands of the Hayes Code, the sexual aspects were also downplayed, which helped to put the focus on the action and intrigue of the plot.
Here is a clip of these older actors. They are not that far from going full scale AI movies.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3HtpD6fY2LI?feature=share
Thanks for the link. I wescpecally like the Jackie Chan vs Bruce Lee. Very funny. Amazing stuff will no doubt be coming.
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