Deep Fake Trailer Imagines Obama, Miley Cyrus & Ian McKellan In A Heist
A newly released deepfake trailer shows Barrack Obama, Miley Cyrus, and Ian McKellan joining forces for a heist that goes terribly wrong. In recent years, deepfake technology has gone to a wide variety of strange and at times outright creepy places, providing viewers with the opportunity to see what some of their favorite films would look like had they been cast differently and even affording career opportunities for deepfake artists who gain viral fame.
At present, the technology has largely been used online by a handful of fans of franchises, such as Star Wars and Back to the Future, who have applied it to entertain other fans. But this certainly isn’t the sole use for deepfakes, and to date, it has been used to some degree in TV commercials, with performance capture (the basis of deepfake technology) used in major films such as The Irishman and Rogue One to either turn back the clock of aging, or, in the case of the latter film, to bring back an actor who had passed away. Perhaps what is most engaging (and admittedly somewhat frightening) about performance capture is that it holds the potential to completely create a performance out of thin air, without the need for actual human actors to stand on location or on a set delivering their lines.
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The latest venture into the bizarre world of deepfakery comes courtesy of actor, writer and comedian Katia Kvinge’s Instagram account. The trailer (which Kvinge refers to as a pilot on her account) starts off simple enough with actors playing the roles of armed thieves preparing for a heist of some sort. But things quickly go off the rails as the three stars transform into Miley Cyrus, Barrack Obama and Ian McKellan
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