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Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway Join Cate Blanchett in

Robert De Niro, Oscar Isaac, Donald Sutherland and Anne Hathaway are becoming a member of Cate Blanchett within the interval drama “Armageddon Time,” which James Gray is directing for RT Features.

The movie will probably be launched to consumers on the digital Cannes movie market. CAA Media Finance is representing the movie’s home distribution rights and Wild Bunch International is dealing with worldwide gross sales.

Gray wrote the script as properly, and he’s reteaming with RT Features following their collaboration on “Ad Astra” starring Brad Pitt. RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira will produce, with RT’s Lourenço Sant’Anna and Rodrigo Gutierrez government producing.

The story will draw on Gray’s personal childhood reminiscences, and can inform a coming-of-age story that explores friendship and loyalty whereas America is poised to elect Ronald Reagan as president.

RT Features’ credit embrace Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name” and Olivier Assayas’ “Wasp Network.”

De Niro, Sutherland, Hathaway, Blanchett, Gray, and RT Features are represented by CAA. Hathaway can be represented by Management 360. Isaac is represented by WME and Inspire Entertainment.

Deadline first reported the information.

22 Actors Digitally De-Aged on Film, From Brad Pitt to Robert De Niro (Photos)

Digital de-aging– the act of constructing an actor look a long time youthful (or typically older) on display by digitally smoothing out wrinkles and tightening jaw lines–is all the trend proper now on the planet of CGI. Why hope {that a} younger, untested actor could be convincing as a lookalike Samuel L. Jackson when we now have the actual factor proper right here? Imagine photoshopping an image for {a magazine}, however now try this time and again for each scene of a film. It’s not an advanced course of, and the expertise hasn’t superior drastically relationship again to the primary occasion in 2006, however the VFX artists have matured to the purpose that filmmakers can go whole films with a de-aged actor moderately than just some scenes. Here are just some actors who’ve gone below the digital knife.
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen – “X-Men: The Last Stand” (2006)

The first main occasion of digital de-aging got here within the 2006 superhero movie “X-Men: The Last Stand.” Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen seem in flashback as their characters Charles Xavier and Magneto as they attempt to recruit a pre-teen Jean Grey. Greg and Colin Strause, previously of the VFX firm Lola Visual Effects, used what the staff known as “digital skin grafting” to make the actors look youthful by eradicating the actors’ wrinkles. Though this early instance is a bit of plastic-y, it was sufficient to kick off an moral dialogue about what visible touch-ups might be carried out to actors and whether or not anybody ought to.

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Brad Pitt – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008)

To convincingly inform the story of a person who aged in reverse, “Benjamin Button” director David Fincher turned to a system known as Contour, developed by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Perlman. Contour was first utilized in video video games to assist seize the performances and gestures of human actors and apply them to digital characters, even going so far as to graft one particular person’s face onto that of one other human actor. So when Pitt seems older, his face has been digitally inserted onto the character. But the youthful, ’90s-era model of Pitt continues to be historically digitally manipulated.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger – “Terminator Salvation” (2009)

Arnold Schwarzenegger is just not really in “Terminator Salvation,” regardless that his face is. For “Salvation,” which got here out in the course of the time that Schwarzenegger was busy being governor of California, the visible results staff used an…