00:00Hollywood is now reacting to that controversial film casting of James Dean in the Vietnam
00:05era action drama Finding Jack 64 years after his death.
00:10Magic City Films, the production company behind the film, announced on Wednesday that the late rebel
00:15without a cause star who died in a car crash in 1955 at the age of 24.
00:20would take the secondary lead role in their upcoming film.
00:23So some of you may ask, how was that...
00:25even possible?
00:26Well, we've learned that Dean's performance will be constructed via full body CGI.
00:30using actual footage and photos and another anonymous actor voicing him.
00:35But despite the filmmakers gaining the rights to use the actor's image from his family to recreate what they
00:40as a realistic version of James Dean, reactions to the casting have been overwhelming.
00:45negative.
00:46Zelda Williams, whose late father Robin Williams restricted exploitation of...
00:50his image for 25 years following his death tweeted,
00:53Publicity stunt or not, this is...
00:55is puppeteering the dead for their clout alone and it sets such an awful precedent for the future...
01:00of performance.
01:01Chris Evans wrote on Twitter,
01:02maybe we can get a computer to paint us a new Picasso...
01:05or write a couple new John Lennon tunes.
01:07The complete lack of understanding here is shameful.
01:10Elijah Wood echoed Evans' criticism, tweeting,
01:12Nope, this shouldn't be a thing.
01:14Actress Julianne...
01:15Emery tweeted,
01:16That's not James Dean.
01:17It's his face on a motion capture performance and an anonymous
01:20actor providing voice pattern and choices.
01:22How little this team understands the acting crap.
01:25Anton Ernst, one of the directors of the film, told The Hollywood Reporter that his team
01:30had searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role of Rogan until
01:35deciding that Dean could portray the extreme complex character arcs of the role.
01:39Pre-production on
01:40defining Jack is set to begin November 17 with a goal for a worldwide release on Veterans Day.
01:452020.
01:46For more on this story, head to THR.com and until next time for The Hollywood Reporter.
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