Movies hypothetically made better by Deep Fakes

[BrunoMattei]

There's movies that are very close to achieving greatness but a casting decision derails the train tracks. Leaving you with -at best- a flawed masterpiece; think of the Mona Lisa but instead of there just being a mole there's a hideous and infected wart with several hairs growing out and in some cases the wart evilly throbs in Cronenberg body horror fervor.

Thanks to the miracles of technology we have the ability to change that.

My picks are:

Under Siege. Very good 90's action movie. Everything is done really well. Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones are bringing their all to it. It has one of the sexiest Playmates doing a legendary strip tease. The gunplay is good. There's good squibs and knife fights (even if they were cut down a little by the MPAA). Everything in this is a quality action movie albeit obviously inspired by Die Hard. BUT it has Steven Seagal as the lead... I don't think I need to say anymore. Deep Fake Seagal's face and voice out of the movie and replace it with literally anyone else and that includes non-action movie stars.

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is another one. A great film and perhaps Gilliam's masterpiece? But it has one of the most unlikable love interests you will find in quite some time. Gilliam himself admitted that he miscast the actress and tried to cut down her scenes as much as humanly possible. Thankfully, in the approved director's cut, the actress has very few scenes and very few lines making a deep fake even easier in this context. Gilliam also publicly said that he wished he was able to cast this actress who played the waitress in Fear & Loathing as the love interest:

I could see it. Big question is if there's enough good footage and voice lines to make a deep fake out of it.

 

[pururun]

Never been a big deep fake guy, but if we can use it to remove Jane Fonda from every movie maybe it has a purpose...

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Every single movie with Ethan Hawke, James Franco, or Matt Dillon in it.

On a serious note, I think AVP would be a lot better with a better lead. The movies got plenty of dumb action, the supporting cast is really good, the effects still mostly hold up. But that swirling vortex of anti-charisma makes the movie nigh unwatchable.

Fatal Attraction would be a good one too. I mean Michael Douglas is good looking, rich and has all the time in the world he needs to be away from his family. And he's gonna sleep with Glenn Close? No, you just took me out of the movie. She doesn't even do a bad job, she's just so utterly unbelievable in that role that it takes me out of the movie.

I mean shit like this happens, Tiger Woods slept with that gross Perkin's waitress...but, still, it's a movie. You have a choice. Choose better.

 

[BrunoMattei]

On a serious note, I think AVP would be a lot better with a better lead. The movies got plenty of dumb action, the supporting cast is really good, the effects still mostly hold up. But that swirling vortex of anti-charisma makes the movie nigh unwatchable.

I think there's more issues to it than just the lead actress although she is incredibly forgettable and the worst of the Ripley stand-in's in the post Alien Resurrection era.

I genuinely like the idea behind this one: 80's buddy cop movie meets horror schlock. One of the buddy cops dies in a shoot out, comes back as a zombie, Vincent Price has a cameo, and the two buddy cops have to figure out what is creating these super zombies.

What destroys the film is Joe Piscopo. He's awful and deeply unfunny. You just know the one-liners he has were at least partly improv by him.

This would be harder to deep fake just because there's so much Joe Piscopo on screen but I think it could be done. Biggest change would be re-writing his dialog and make it actually funny and punchy.

Edit: another one would be Jesse Eisenberg in Batman V Superman. I just don't like him as an actor AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT WAS HE MISCAST IN THIS FUCKING MOVIE! Oh my god. And I still like this film despite him. But the studio heads should have done the most obvious thing in the world and a deep fake could easily fix this: deep fake Bryan Cranston as Lex Luthor. Done. Fixed... Maybe delete the "Martha!" line because of memes too?

 

[R00T]

I think there's more issues to it than just the lead actress although she is incredibly forgettable and the worst of the Ripley stand-in's in the post Alien Resurrection era.

I genuinely like the idea behind this one: 80's buddy cop movie meets horror schlock. One of the buddy cops dies in a shoot out, comes back as a zombie, Vincent Price has a cameo, and the two buddy cops have to figure out what is creating these super zombies.

What destroys the film is Joe Piscopo. He's awful and deeply unfunny. You just know the one-liners he has were at least partly improv by him.

This would be harder to deep fake just because there's so much Joe Piscopo on screen but I think it could be done. Biggest change would be re-writing his dialog and make it actually funny and punchy.

Edit: another one would be Jesse Eisenberg in Batman V Superman. I just don't like him as an actor AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT WAS HE MISCAST IN THIS FUCKING MOVIE! Oh my god. And I still like this film despite him. But the studio heads should have done the most obvious thing in the world and a deep fake could easily fix this: deep fake Bryan Cranston as Lex Luthor. Done. Fixed... Maybe delete the "Martha!" line because of memes too?

Dead Heat was fun, but I don’t know remember enough of Piscopo to have an opinion on him in it. Them continuously stapling the zombie cop back together throughout the movie was great.

Could Eisenberg have been a better riddler? I don’t think they want to do another one with him as the lead villain because of Jim Carrey. It’ll be too hard to separate him from the character.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Dead Heat was fun, but I don’t know remember enough of Piscopo to have an opinion on him in it. Them continuously stapling the zombie cop back together throughout the movie was great.

Could Eisenberg have been a better riddler? I don’t think they want to do another one with him as the lead villain because of Jim Carrey. It’ll be too hard to separate him from the character.

I just don't like Eisenberg as an actor. I prefer Michael Cera.

The Social Network really sucked and is one of Fincher's worst films too.

 

[Product Placement]

Lot of animated movies which just cast famous people because they are famous rather than fit the role. People love the Shrek movies, but what the hell does Cameron Diaz bring to that movie, you could replace her with pretty much any early 2000s actress and it be the same.

Hannibal, Julianne Moore is a great actress but Jodie Foster was so much better as Clarice Starling.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, why the hell is sex pest Lena Dunham in this movie, why does she still have a career after her tell all book. Awful person. painful to look at and a shit actress, no reason for her to be in any movies.

Inspector Gadget, there is no making this a good movie but who thought Matthew Broderick was a good pick. Someone like Michael Richards would have worked much better.

Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, Just someone closer to the comic in terms of look and accent.

Godfather 3, you said make it better and replacing Sophia Coppola would make it better. The movie has issues outside that casting but least it would fix one of the biggest ones.

Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffanys, don't care it's racist, care it's painfully unfunny, can we just deepfake the character fully out of the movie?

Nolan Batman movies, Rachel Dawes, he first casts Katie Holmes who isn't a great actress, then replaces her with Maggie Gyllenhaal who is a far better actress but isn't the looker the role asks for. Mean could you deepfake the Joker's line about her looks to something that reflects reality?

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

It would be nice to put white actors into movies that have race swapped characters, which is why I can see someone stepping in to stop it before it gets to that point. (Being able to control your viewing experience in the privacy of your own home? Not on our watch, bigot!)

And what's this Steven Seagal nonsense? Dude was perfect in Under Siege. Young Seagal was an action god. Who are you going to replace him with, Keanu Reeves?

 

[BrunoMattei]

And what's this Steven Seagal nonsense? Dude was perfect in Under Siege. Young Seagal was an action god. Who are you going to replace him with, Keanu Reeves?

Yes, I would. Because unironically Keanu is better than Seagal.

 

[Calandrino]

Biopics and historical films could have the actors look exactly like the characters they're portraying: Nixon, Muhammad Ali, Elvis, whatever. Only a matter of time before this is done in a new movie, if it's not been done already.

 

[Oats12345]

I would replace Bree Lawson as captain Marvel with a nicer actress

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

I would replace Bree Lawson as captain Marvel with a nicer actress

I'd say Katheryn Winnick would've been great. She actually talked about this once in 2012 [A] & then later in another interview. I've seen so many edits since that it pretty much is the perfect casting, she actually wanted to do the role too, unlike Brie Larson.

Another choice of mine would be Lynda Carter due to being perfect for the the Ms. Marvel design before the comics ruined her. But then you'd have to deepfake the body too, cause she's not a twig like Brie Larson & deepfakes can't make miracles.

There's also a deepfaked DCEU Wonder Woman with her on it.

Here's one alongside Christopher Reeve & Adam West.

Spoiler: Linda Carter Hardcore Mogging

To give more weight to Linda Carter's "goddess body" part:


70 y/o woman btw

It's not just this either, Deepfake Porn Makers, at least the good ones who are so autistically dedicated to their work that they try to find right body & face to deepfake the actress' face on for more authentic experience, admit that it's almost impossible to deepfake Lynda Carter because they just couldn't find the right body for her to reference. This happens to many other actresses too, but Lynda is specially hard to do.

TL;DR - Lynda Carter mogs most women to this day.

 

[frozen_runner]

Take Mila Kunis completely out of The Book of Eli. She's adorable, but she was miscast and is the one stain on an otherwise pretty good movie.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Take Mila Kunis completely out of The Book of Eli. She's adorable, but she was miscast and is the one stain on an otherwise pretty good movie.

Good choice but just to correct you, she's the stain in almost every movie she appears in excluding Ted. Thankfully, Jupiter Rising destroyed her career as a leading actress.

Furthermore, deep fake her and Natalie Portman out of Black Swan and you'd have a much better movie.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

You couldn't do it just with deepfake, because too much of the script would have to be re-written, but Tremors 2 would have been so much better if they had been able to get Kevin Bacon back, instead of the "charmingly, quirkily stupid sidekick" new character. It wasn't a bad movie, but that character was just awful.

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I'm going to give a kind of controversial one. Not one that I think would be BETTER, more just different and weird, and I know it's going to get some people annoyed just because I'm race-swapping, but... I would adore watching Lord of the Rings with Morgan Freeman as Gandalf. I'm sorry, hate on me if you want, but I think that would be fun.

"Two things never happened after that day. Sauron was never seen in Middle Earth again, and Frodo Baggins never used chopsticks again..."

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I'm trying to think of a movie offhand that would be improved with Sam Eliot, because the world needs more Sam Eliot, but off hand I'm not thinking of a good candidate.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Good choice but just to correct you, she's the stain in almost every movie she appears in excluding Ted. Thankfully, Jupiter Rising destroyed her career as a leading actress.

Furthermore, deep fake her and Natalie Portman out of Black Swan and you'd have a much better movie.

Thing is, one can just see Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon if they want a better version of that film. The only reason anyone casually, probably even bothered with that film is the sex scene, it's not even that good a scene, but it literally what sold the film. It's like saying Jennifer's Body shouldn't have Megan Fox & Amanda Seyfried in it.

 

[A-Stump]

Tarantino in From Dusk Till Dawn. We all know why he wrote himself in. So he could literally have an entire foot stuck in his mouth. So you've got Clooney basically trying to act with someone who has the acting talent of a loaf of bread and he always has more energy and constantly has to carry a scene. It's weird and it should have been literally anyone else.

Though I'll say I liked Tarantino in Pulp Fiction but only because the writing was punchier and he had far less of a role. 'Dead nigger storage' is one of the greats.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Tarantino in From Dusk Till Dawn. We all know why he wrote himself in. So he could literally have an entire foot stuck in his mouth. So you've got Clooney basically trying to act with someone who has the acting talent of a loaf of bread and he always has more energy and constantly has to carry a scene. It's weird and it should have been literally anyone else.

Though I'll say I liked Tarantino in Pulp Fiction but only because the writing was punchier and he had far less of a role. 'Dead nigger storage' is one of the greats.

Aw, I liked him in From Dusk Till Dawn.

NB4 someone posts the foot gif.

 

[A-Stump]

I don't think anything could have saved 3 From Hell short of Sid Haig not dying but 'Midnight Wolfman' sure wasn't the ticket. Just say it to yourself. 'Midnight Wolfman'. That's fucking retarded. If it had been made now I'd take deepfaking literally anyone in. They essentially said 'Well people like Otis. Uhh. Here's another Otis'.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Aw, I liked him in From Dusk Till Dawn.

NB4 someone posts the foot gif.

Here to do the sneedful.