{"id":14921,"date":"2017-01-02T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14921"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:36:49","slug":"actors-are-the-first-to-achieve-immortality-this-has-economic-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/actors-are-the-first-to-achieve-immortality-this-has-economic-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors Are The First To Achieve Immortality. This Has Economic Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/010217_1634_ActorsAreTh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Walker didn&#8217;t let his own death prevent him from filming scenes for &#8220;Furious 7&#8221;. In &#8220;Rogue One&#8221; Peter Cushing decided to reprise the role of Grand Moff Tarkin despite having retired to the grave two decades ago. Through the use of technology it&#8217;s possible to bring dead actors back to life. Lisa Richwine and Jill Serjeant looked at how the industry is responding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actors are beginning to write clauses in their contracts stipulating how their likeness can be used after their deaths.<\/li>\n<li>Some actors ask that if they&#8217;re brought back from the grave, they not be depicted doing drugs or having sex.<\/li>\n<li>Others ban all depictions period. Robin Williams embargoed any use of his image for commercial purposes until 2039.<\/li>\n<li>The technology is still new, and is expensive enough that it might cost more to digitally re-create a character than to hire a brand-new Hollywood A-Lister.<\/li>\n<li>Filmmakers may also hesitate because audiences might focus on how realistic the digital character looks, rather than on the wider story, themes, or characters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/news\/actors-seek-posthumous-protections-after-big-screen-resurrections\/ar-BBxJu7B?ocid=News\">MSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Walker didn&#8217;t let his own death prevent him from filming scenes for &#8220;Furious 7&#8221;. In &#8220;Rogue One&#8221; Peter Cushing decided to reprise the role of Grand Moff Tarkin despite having retired to the grave two decades ago. Through the use of technology it&#8217;s possible to bring dead actors back to life. Lisa Richwine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/010217_1634_ActorsAreTh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}