Tom Hanks Contemplates AI’s Potential For His After-Death Film Appearances

Thanks to artificial intelligence and deepfake, actor Tom Hanks has said it’s now possible for him to pitch multiple movies in which he would appear as a 32-year-old. Hanks also claimed AI could make it possible for him to continue appearing in new films even after his passing. Notably, both technologies have helped de-age Harrison Ford, so he resembles his character from 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.

“What is a bona fide possibility right now, if I wanted to, [is] I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old from now until kingdom come,” said Hanks in an interview on The Adam Buxton Podcast “Anybody can now recreate themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deep fake technology.”

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He added, ‘I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that’s it, but my performances can go on and on and on. Outside of the understanding that it’s been done by AI or deep fake, there’ll be nothing to tell you that it’s not me and me alone, and it’s going to have some degree of lifelike quality.” Hanks, who has reteamed with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis for the movie Here, will most likely use AI technology for the project to de-age him.

Hanks pondered if audiences would care if AI was used in film and further revealed that Hollywood is already drawing up contracts to protect actors. He concluded, “I can tell you that there are discussions going on in all of the guilds, all of the agencies, and all of the legal firms in order to come up with the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else’s being our intellectual property.”