so how’s it going what do you care how
to sight out of mind nothing can keep an
actor from completing a project in the
digital age
not even aging tragedy or death I wish
the Lord would take me now
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities that were recreated with
special effects whether it’s CGI body
doubles face masks creative editing or a
combination of them all we’re looking at
actors who for the most part didn’t even
have to phone in their performances
because they were pantomimed recycled or
pixeled in instead number 10 Audrey
Hepburn gaps keep it simple TV ad I
rather be like expressing myself now and
I could certainly use a release gap
wanted to advertise their skinny black
pants and couldn’t find an actress or
model better than Audrey Hepburn to do
so after all she was the model of
sophistication unfortunately she passed
away 13 years previously
after earning the permission of her
estate and giving a donation to her
children’s fund gap managed with the
help of a visual effects studio to
manufacture their vision of the ideal
marketing campaign by lifting footage
from her 1957 musical funny face it’s
she she and an unrealistic approach to
self impressions as well as economics
according to gaps VP date shows Hepburn
specifically to represent the
timelessness of style
number nine Laurence Olivier Sky Captain
and the World of Tomorrow
a testament to a stage and screen legacy
the producers of this dieselpunk sci-fi
flick decided that only Laurence Olivier
had the chops to play the movie’s main
villain dr. Totenkopf had a doctor the
only problem
Olivier’s been dead since 1989 I hope in
witness to a world consumed by hatred
and bent on self-destruction in their
defense that kind of fits the story as
his character had been dead 20 years in
the film and is on screen as a hologram
version of himself who dares enter this
place we think this was a respectful way
to add another film to Olivier CV while
also putting archived BBC footage of the
actor to good use
I am number 8 Jeff Bridges Tron Legacy
come on come on having Jeff Bridges
co-star beside a younger version of
himself seems like an ambitious
challenge that could have potentially
failed miserably under not so heavy
scrutiny regardless it was too cool not
to try in the context of a plot
involving a character trapped in
cyberspace for two decades with his
youthful and villainous computer
doppelganger shameless to pull this off
they mapped his face and digitally
recreated it based on his appearance in
the 1984 film against all odds thank you
thanks a lot occasionally pasting it on
to a younger actors body for the action
sequences I took the system to its
maximum potential I created the perfect
system thing about
is that it’s unknowable it’s
impossible but it’s also right in front
of all the time you wouldn’t know that
because I didn’t but I created you
number seven Gene Kelly Volkswagen Golf
GTI TV ad uh why is Gene Kelly popping
and locking
because singing in the rain is so 1952
actually it’s to sell VW golf’s b-boy
master elsewhere wore a prosthetic
facemask along with a wetsuit to keep
from freezing under artificial rain for
hours on a soundstage to recreate and
update one of the most famous dance
scenes in cinema history yes singing in
the rain though some viewers found the
add a little disrespectful
Kelly’s estate approved it so it’s safe
to enjoy
number six Marlon Brando Superman
Returns my son you do not remember me I
am Doral
I know follow after portraying the
character in the 1978 film the late
Marlon Brando reprises his role as
Superman’s father jor-el in this reboot
/ sequel can you see us no he’s dead
after negotiating with Brando’s estate
director Bryan Singer was able to
embrace the legacy of the Christopher
Reeve movie and actually manages to show
jor-el from multiple angles and with new
mouth movements
thanks to CGI
speak and extra footage from the
original which included outtakes as well
as unused takes and overall we think the
effect is super embedded in the crystals
before you is the total accumulation all
literature and scientific fact from
dozens of other worlds spanning the 28
known galaxies number five Marlena
Dietrich Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly
j’adore Dior the film this commercial is
so polished digitally it’s easy to miss
out on the fact that three of the
actresses featured in it aren’t really
there but this time warp ad created by
oscar-winning director jean-jacques anno
allows Charlize Theron to run into three
of the most glamorous actresses in
Hollywood history as she rushes for the
runway
footage of the legendary women’s faces
was inserted almost seamlessly into the
video including Maryland’s bold
endorsement of the product number four
Oliver read gladiator you’re a gladiator
this was at a cost of roughly 3.2
million dollars reads head was masked
onto another actors body perfectly in
what may be one of the best creations of
a posthumous performance for its time
we’re pretty sure you wouldn’t suspect
anything while watching if you didn’t
already know that the actor had died of
a heart attack before the end of
production I wasn’t the best because I
kill Mike Lee I was the best because the
crowd loved me in the crowd I know when
your freedom this happened while on a
break from filming his scenes as
próximo the freed slave and the
finished product was dedicated in his
honor I know that you are a man of your
word
I know that you would die for honor
number three Arnold Schwarzenegger
Terminator Salvation
it’s brave to reanimate an actor with
facial close-ups in a relatively
climactic fight scene but it was
necessary with Arnold who is too
advanced in years to still be playing a
killer robot at this point in the
franchise
prosthetic face castings from his 1984
heyday as the t800 gave the producers
the exact shape and measurement needed
of the action-hero to create the digital
makeup while another bodybuilders body
was used as his stand-in the back-up
plan if Arnie had said no just shoot his
face off
gods are number two Brandon Lee the crow
ah are you some kind of ghost after
Brandon Lee died on set from a gunshot
accident during production the cast and
crew were so devastated they decided to
finish the film in his memory
the CGI was so meticulous that to this
day it’s hard to tell which scenes
feature Brandon Lee and which feature
his disguised body doubles Velma the
Avenger the killer Achilles myself
Brandon’s father the legendary Bruce Lee
also needed similar trickery to complete
his last movie after he passed away
suddenly at the age of 32
but his son definitely got the less
obvious posthumous film treatment sure
you’ll remember you killed them on
Halloween yeah yeah Halloween yeah some
do some bitch whatever me sure before we
conjure up our top pick here are some
honorable mentions now look here
I don’t like that kind of talk now just
stop it it upsets when you get to be my
age you you get a chance to look back
and see how things could have been
different but and it’s too late
number one
JFK Richard Nixon Elvis Presley and John
Lennon Forrest Gump and students Jimmie
hood and Vivian Malone had been signed
up for summer classes ma’am you dropped
your book Forrest Gump’s epic life story
has ups downs and multiple encounters
with celebrities whom unfortunately were
not alive to help him tell his tale
congratulation how do you be you I got a
big I believe he did yes you’ll be
instead extensive visual effects were
used to integrate Tom Hanks with
manipulated archived footage of
encounters with presidents John F
Kennedy and Richard Nixon and musicians
Elvis Presley and John Lennon Forrest
Gump John Lennon
welcome home quite a trip can you tell
us swim what was China like blue-screen
rotoscoping chroma key and image warping
as well as voice doubles were some of
the techniques that Industrial Light and
Magic used to bring these iconic
historical characters back to life movie
magic at its most impressive hey man
show me that crazy little walk you just
did there slow down son usually I like
that get tall do you agree with our list
which recreated celebrities did we miss
for more innovative top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com good night Catherine
you
to sight out of mind nothing can keep an
actor from completing a project in the
digital age
not even aging tragedy or death I wish
the Lord would take me now
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities that were recreated with
special effects whether it’s CGI body
doubles face masks creative editing or a
combination of them all we’re looking at
actors who for the most part didn’t even
have to phone in their performances
because they were pantomimed recycled or
pixeled in instead number 10 Audrey
Hepburn gaps keep it simple TV ad I
rather be like expressing myself now and
I could certainly use a release gap
wanted to advertise their skinny black
pants and couldn’t find an actress or
model better than Audrey Hepburn to do
so after all she was the model of
sophistication unfortunately she passed
away 13 years previously
after earning the permission of her
estate and giving a donation to her
children’s fund gap managed with the
help of a visual effects studio to
manufacture their vision of the ideal
marketing campaign by lifting footage
from her 1957 musical funny face it’s
she she and an unrealistic approach to
self impressions as well as economics
according to gaps VP date shows Hepburn
specifically to represent the
timelessness of style
number nine Laurence Olivier Sky Captain
and the World of Tomorrow
a testament to a stage and screen legacy
the producers of this dieselpunk sci-fi
flick decided that only Laurence Olivier
had the chops to play the movie’s main
villain dr. Totenkopf had a doctor the
only problem
Olivier’s been dead since 1989 I hope in
witness to a world consumed by hatred
and bent on self-destruction in their
defense that kind of fits the story as
his character had been dead 20 years in
the film and is on screen as a hologram
version of himself who dares enter this
place we think this was a respectful way
to add another film to Olivier CV while
also putting archived BBC footage of the
actor to good use
I am number 8 Jeff Bridges Tron Legacy
come on come on having Jeff Bridges
co-star beside a younger version of
himself seems like an ambitious
challenge that could have potentially
failed miserably under not so heavy
scrutiny regardless it was too cool not
to try in the context of a plot
involving a character trapped in
cyberspace for two decades with his
youthful and villainous computer
doppelganger shameless to pull this off
they mapped his face and digitally
recreated it based on his appearance in
the 1984 film against all odds thank you
thanks a lot occasionally pasting it on
to a younger actors body for the action
sequences I took the system to its
maximum potential I created the perfect
system thing about
is that it’s unknowable it’s
impossible but it’s also right in front
of all the time you wouldn’t know that
because I didn’t but I created you
number seven Gene Kelly Volkswagen Golf
GTI TV ad uh why is Gene Kelly popping
and locking
because singing in the rain is so 1952
actually it’s to sell VW golf’s b-boy
master elsewhere wore a prosthetic
facemask along with a wetsuit to keep
from freezing under artificial rain for
hours on a soundstage to recreate and
update one of the most famous dance
scenes in cinema history yes singing in
the rain though some viewers found the
add a little disrespectful
Kelly’s estate approved it so it’s safe
to enjoy
number six Marlon Brando Superman
Returns my son you do not remember me I
am Doral
I know follow after portraying the
character in the 1978 film the late
Marlon Brando reprises his role as
Superman’s father jor-el in this reboot
/ sequel can you see us no he’s dead
after negotiating with Brando’s estate
director Bryan Singer was able to
embrace the legacy of the Christopher
Reeve movie and actually manages to show
jor-el from multiple angles and with new
mouth movements
thanks to CGI
speak and extra footage from the
original which included outtakes as well
as unused takes and overall we think the
effect is super embedded in the crystals
before you is the total accumulation all
literature and scientific fact from
dozens of other worlds spanning the 28
known galaxies number five Marlena
Dietrich Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly
j’adore Dior the film this commercial is
so polished digitally it’s easy to miss
out on the fact that three of the
actresses featured in it aren’t really
there but this time warp ad created by
oscar-winning director jean-jacques anno
allows Charlize Theron to run into three
of the most glamorous actresses in
Hollywood history as she rushes for the
runway
footage of the legendary women’s faces
was inserted almost seamlessly into the
video including Maryland’s bold
endorsement of the product number four
Oliver read gladiator you’re a gladiator
this was at a cost of roughly 3.2
million dollars reads head was masked
onto another actors body perfectly in
what may be one of the best creations of
a posthumous performance for its time
we’re pretty sure you wouldn’t suspect
anything while watching if you didn’t
already know that the actor had died of
a heart attack before the end of
production I wasn’t the best because I
kill Mike Lee I was the best because the
crowd loved me in the crowd I know when
your freedom this happened while on a
break from filming his scenes as
próximo the freed slave and the
finished product was dedicated in his
honor I know that you are a man of your
word
I know that you would die for honor
number three Arnold Schwarzenegger
Terminator Salvation
it’s brave to reanimate an actor with
facial close-ups in a relatively
climactic fight scene but it was
necessary with Arnold who is too
advanced in years to still be playing a
killer robot at this point in the
franchise
prosthetic face castings from his 1984
heyday as the t800 gave the producers
the exact shape and measurement needed
of the action-hero to create the digital
makeup while another bodybuilders body
was used as his stand-in the back-up
plan if Arnie had said no just shoot his
face off
gods are number two Brandon Lee the crow
ah are you some kind of ghost after
Brandon Lee died on set from a gunshot
accident during production the cast and
crew were so devastated they decided to
finish the film in his memory
the CGI was so meticulous that to this
day it’s hard to tell which scenes
feature Brandon Lee and which feature
his disguised body doubles Velma the
Avenger the killer Achilles myself
Brandon’s father the legendary Bruce Lee
also needed similar trickery to complete
his last movie after he passed away
suddenly at the age of 32
but his son definitely got the less
obvious posthumous film treatment sure
you’ll remember you killed them on
Halloween yeah yeah Halloween yeah some
do some bitch whatever me sure before we
conjure up our top pick here are some
honorable mentions now look here
I don’t like that kind of talk now just
stop it it upsets when you get to be my
age you you get a chance to look back
and see how things could have been
different but and it’s too late
number one
JFK Richard Nixon Elvis Presley and John
Lennon Forrest Gump and students Jimmie
hood and Vivian Malone had been signed
up for summer classes ma’am you dropped
your book Forrest Gump’s epic life story
has ups downs and multiple encounters
with celebrities whom unfortunately were
not alive to help him tell his tale
congratulation how do you be you I got a
big I believe he did yes you’ll be
instead extensive visual effects were
used to integrate Tom Hanks with
manipulated archived footage of
encounters with presidents John F
Kennedy and Richard Nixon and musicians
Elvis Presley and John Lennon Forrest
Gump John Lennon
welcome home quite a trip can you tell
us swim what was China like blue-screen
rotoscoping chroma key and image warping
as well as voice doubles were some of
the techniques that Industrial Light and
Magic used to bring these iconic
historical characters back to life movie
magic at its most impressive hey man
show me that crazy little walk you just
did there slow down son usually I like
that get tall do you agree with our list
which recreated celebrities did we miss
for more innovative top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com good night Catherine
you
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