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New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright


Time-hopping film Here used AI trained on every Tom Hanks movie to make him appear young again.

On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood's first full-length features built around AI-powered visual effects. Traditional visual effects for this level of face modification would reportedly require hundreds of artists and a substantially larger budget closer to standard Marvel movie costs. Companies like Runway have been developing text-to-video generation tools, while others create AI systems like Callaia for script analysis and pre-production planning.

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