Rolling back the years: Is de-aging tech the future of film-making?

摘要

WHEN INDUSTRIAL Light & Magic's (ILM) visual-effects technology converged with world-renowned film director Martin Scorsese, the result is the much-talked about Netflixbacked film ‘The Irishman’. But while there's been considerable hype around the venerated director's return to the mob violence genre, together with his reunion, after nearly 25 years, with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, joined in the film by Al Pacino, the real buzz has been around the so-called ‘youth’ technology used to de-age the famous septuagenarians.