James Dean to be digitally brought to life for Vietnam War movie

Hollywood legend James Dean, who died at of 24 in a car crash in 1955, is being brought back to big screen with help of CGI visual effects for Vietnam era movie "Finding Jack". Dean, whose fame rests on just three films -- "Rebel Without a Cause", "East of Eden" and "Giant", is considered a screen icon whose life was tragically cut short.

Magic City Films has obtained rights from his family to cast Dean posthumously in secondary le role in movie. Dean will be recreated using actual photographs and videos, reported Variety.  "Finding Jack", to be produced by Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, will be apted from Gareth Crocker's vel. To be apted by Maria Sova, story revolves around abandonment of over 10,000 military dogs at end of Vietnam War. Dean's digital recreation will be cast as Rogan.

"We feel very houred that his family supports us and will take every precaution to ensure that his legacy as one of most epic film stars to date is kept firmly intact," producer Anton Ernst said in a statement. 

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" family views this as his fourth movie, a movie he never got to make. We do t intend to let his fans down," Ernst ded. 

Mark Roesler, CEO of CMG Worldwide, business nt for family of James Dean said, "With rapidly evolving techlogy, we see this as a whole new frontier for many of our iconic clients. This opens up a whole new opportunity for many of our clients who are longer with us."

producers have brought Canian VFX company Imagine Engine and South African VFX company MOI Worldwide to recreate a realistic version of Dean. Geoff Anderson from Imagine Engine will be overseeing VFX supervision relating to Dean's recreation, Variety ded. anuncement that Dean, a youth icon for generations of Hollywood stars, would be brought to life 64 years after his death has met with widespre criticism from actors such as Chris Evans, Zelda Williams and Elijah Wood 

"This is awful. Maybe we can get a computer to paint us a new Picasso. Or write a couple new John Lenn tunes. complete lack of understanding here is shameful," Evans tweeted.

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Actor Robin Williams' daughter Zelda said it will set an awful precedent for future of performance. "Preacher" actor Julie Ann Emery said digital recreation of Dean raises moral and practical questions.

"That's t James Dean. It's his face on a motion capture performance and an 'anymous' actor providing voice pattern and choices. I'd like to kw how it will be credited. How real actors will be paid. And how little this team understands acting craft," she wrote on Twitter.

Devon Sawa, who auditioned for a different role in "Finding Jack", also commented on casting of a deceased actor, tweeting, "y couldn't give this role to an actual human?"  de-ing process has emerged as new phemen in Hollywood with a number of prestige projects rolling back years of its actors, latest being Martin Scorsese's " Irishman", where Robert De Niro, Al Paci and Joe Pesci have been de-d to portray ir characters in different sts of life.

Director Ang Lee also showed a younger clone of Will Smith's character in "Gemini Man" and gave world's its first digital human. Marvel tentpoles such as "Captain Marvel" and "Avengers: Endgame" also used de-ing techlogy to show past of ir le characters. 

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