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Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator'
Hugh Pickens writes "The Governator revealed this week that he may appear in the upcoming 'Terminator Salvation,' but when he said he didn't want to act, he left many fans scratching their heads. Turns out Schwarzenegger has been secretly working with helmer McG and the effects team to reprise his signature role ... without lifting a finger. 'I made it very clear that I don't have the time to do the movie,' says Schwarzenegger. 'I said that I would be willing to be in the movie if they get the technology together, and so they are working on that right now.' A body-cast mold of Schwarzenegger, created when he first appeared as the muscle-ripped cyborg, provided the basis for a digital-effects version of his famous character so the figure can appear in 'Terminator Salvation' as a living, breathing actor. Warner first screens the movie in early May, and opens it May 21. 'I think it's cool to continue on with the franchise ... in case I want to jump over again and get into the acting after I'm through here,' adds Schwarzenegger."
He did not act in the first one either!
They tapped Henry Kissinger to do terminators voice.
Remember that the first terminators were made of rubber and could easily be identified as robots from close range. Arnie should totally reprise the role: old, wrinkly and saggy parts would make for an awesome first generation terminator.
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...to get a digital Shatner in the new STAR TREK film?
Why was a body-cast taken in the first place? Did the producers send someone back in time to get the mold so it would be available for 'Salvation'?
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
YES! Now we need a sci-fi in which Humphry Bogart and his sidekick Charlie Chaplin to investigate an evil cartel of cyberninjas headed by Bruce Lee and Toshiro Mifune. In the end it truns out the mastermind was Cary Grant and his minion Peter Lorre. Epic!
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You know, when your main actors are getting so old they have to be digitally reproduced - that might just maybe possibly be a sign that you should let it drop already.
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rediculous.
... so the figure can appear in "Terminator Salvation" as a living, breathing actor.
To recap, we will have a CGI farm pretending to be an actor pretending to be a robot pretending to be a man.
Imagine if we could get a Beowulf cluster of these things.
"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." --The American President (20.1.2009)
I still want to see a movie done that actually reflects the book. The only thing that the book and the movie have in common are the same names of the characters and the name of the game. NOTHING else is the same.
The Running Man book predicted the prevalence of reality TV, unfortunately the reality of reality TV is no where as good as the reality in the book.
Soon we no longer need actors and we just need digitized versions of them.
Computers can't act. Until Dr. Soong comes along and perfects a 'positronic' brain, this still statement cannot be true. Even animators need reference.
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"Additionally, digital actors have less of an impact (episodes IV, V, and VI vs. episodes I, II, and II for example). "
Ahhhhh... so it WAS a robotic reproduction of Natalie Portman in the new Star Wars movies?
Finally something explains that performance...
Mmmm, sagging manboobs
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Not to mention Fatty Arbuckle...
Fixed that for you.
Lucy Liu Bots anyone?
Hey, wouldn't Keanu Reeves have made the perfect Data... or Spock?
I mean, no visible emotions at all... Even Nimoy couldn't do that.
They would have had to skip that episode where he got a emotion chip though...
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
If someone can do this, he's hired: :)
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Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Not to mention Keanu Reeves... Fixed that for you.
Not necessarily. Total(ly) Recall that (at least in the movie) ...
Sorry couldn't help myself.
The Governator revealed this week that he may appear in the upcoming 'Terminator Salvation,' but when he said he didn't want to act, he left many fans scratching their heads.
I don't see why, that's perfectly lucid if you ask me.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
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They will have to build a server farm code named "Sky Net" in order to reproduce Arnie!
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Not to mention Keanu Reeves...
Fixed that for you.
I thought he was already a robot?
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Robert Zemeckis already did use Bogart in a 1995 Tales of the Crypt: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716912/ It's good to see Paul Newman's clause in his will. I only hope that Rob Schneider uses the same clause in his will.
OJ as the Terminator? that makes no sense. Oh, wait...
Corporations are immortal.
You can't even cut their heads off with a sword.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Bill Pullman's presidential speech in Independence Day is better than any speech our last five presidents have given, just putting that out there.
That's because it was written by a professional writer and rehearsed dozens of times.
Oh, wait...