RE: Movie Review: Bill and Ted Face the Music
I was always wondering, why it took so long to make a sequel to this fairly successful movie. With other movies they would be at part 8 or 9 by now.
Sure, beeing a teen comedy, there is the problem of the actors getting older. But today they even have ways to get around that.
Its another thing I wonder about - I have quiete a few of those - why they have not produced a movie with virtual actors yet. I mean people like Bogart, Monroe, Wayne, Chaplin and so on. Technically it would be doable nowadays. Same as making movies with virtual invented actors, or actors that have given permission to use a virtual version of themself.
That would probably be the end of movie stars, or actors all together. And make movies much cheaper - no stunts, costumes, film sets needed anymore.
Ithink I remember seeing a movie about that once, but I forgot what it was called.
There's a huge controversy going on about that right now. I kind of like the idea--I'm ready for another John Wayne movie. On a more personal note, I just finished the first draft of a mystery novel in which a John Wayne impersonator appears who looks EXACTLY like the real thing--it would be great to see that in a movie version.
There was a movie in which a director created an actor using virtual reality, and she was so real everyone thought she really existed. It backfired on him, of course. I think it was called Simone.
I know Simone - or Sim One - as well, but its not the movie I mean. This one is just a few years old, and much... well, weirder. Its about a woman movie star - or a former star rather, because she has aged and is not matching the roles she was famous in anymore - who sells her soul, you could say. She gets a lot of money and in return she is totally scanned in, her look, the way she moves, talks and so on. And she has to agree to retire, never act in person again.
You see, its not a comedy, rather a pretty creepy SF.
Yep--sounds creepy, all right.