Hollywood legend James Dean, who died at the age of 24 in a car crash in 1955, is being brought back to the big screen with the help of CGI visual effects for the 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 the secondary lead role in the 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 adapted from Gareth Crocker’s novel. To be adapted by Maria Sova, the story revolves around the abandonment of over 10,000 military dogs at the end of the Vietnam War. Dean’s digital recreation will be cast as Rogan.
The announcement that Dean, a youth icon for generations of Hollywood stars, would be brought to life 64 years after his death has met with widespread 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 Lennon tunes. The complete lack of understanding here is shameful,” Evans tweeted.
Actor Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda said it will set an awful precedent for the future of performance.
