ALIEN fans have criticized the franchise's newest entry, Romulus, for using generative AI to bring a dead actor back to the franchise. Alien: Romulus, starring Cailee Spaeny, 26, and David Jonsson, 31, was released theatrically on August 16. The Fede Alverez-directed Alien sequel, which chronologically sits between the first Ridley Scott -directed picture and James Cameron 's 1986 follow-up Aliens, used the likeness of deceased actor Ian Holm in the sci-fi horror film.
Ian, who died in June 2020, played the android Ash - the secondary villain to the film's Xenomorph - in Alien (1979). The actor's likeness was used to portray a similar synthetic human, Rook, who the movie's protagonists discover aboard an abandoned spaceship. On Monday, the film and pop culture-dedicated X, formally Twitter account, Discussing Film, reposted a Los Angeles Times story about Holms appearing in the 2024 Alien entry.
READ MORE ON NEW MOVIES The tweet read, "The deceased actor who appears in 'ALIEN: ROMULUS' was brought back by using an animatronic with some CGI enhancements. "Daniel Betts did the voice with generative AI and computer modeling used to make it sound more like the late actor." In the comment thread, one person asked, "Isn’t this a little disrespectful.
" "I hope that their family got the royalties," commented another. Most read in Movies "That’s disgusting," remarked a third." A fourth commenter stated Ian's inclusion was the "worst part of the movie.
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