Year
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Film
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Description
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2006
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X-Men: The Last Stand
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Actors
Patrick Stewart and
Ian McKellen, who play the mutants
Professor X and
Magneto respectively, are de-aged in a flashback scene in which the two work together to recruit a mutant girl (
Jean Grey) as a student.
[1]
[2]
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2006
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The Departed
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Jack Nicholson was de-aged briefly in a flashback set in the early 1980s.
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2008
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Based on a short story in which the protagonist ages backwards, actor
Brad Pitt, who plays Benjamin Button, is initially shown as elderly and is gradually de-aged to look progressively younger as numerous decades of the character's life go by.
[3]
[4]
[1]
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2009
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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In this superhero film,
Patrick Stewart, who plays mutant
Professor X, is de-aged for a brief
cameo appearance, as the film takes place earlier in the timeline than the previous films of the series in which Stewart participated.
[5] Though
Danny Huston appears as Major
William Stryker in the finished film, his
X2 actor
Brian Cox initially expressed interest to reprise the role by employing the same CGI program applied to Stewart and
Ian McKellen in The Last Stand opening sequence.
[6]
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2009
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Surrogates
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Bruce Willis plays an
FBI agent who controls a look-alike
humanoid robot de-aged to appear in his mid 30s. The effect supervised by visual effects artist
Mark Stetson relied on makeup, lighting, and digital effects.
[7]
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2010
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Tron: Legacy
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A sequel to
Tron (1982), set 28 years later, actor
Jeff Bridges, who plays the protagonist
Kevin Flynn in the original film, is de-aged to appear as Flynn's younger self in flashbacks and as the corrupt program
CLU, a copy of Flynn himself, but decades younger.
[1]
[8] Rather than using footage from the original Tron as visual reference, Bridges' likeness was recreated with archive footage from
Against All Odds (1984).
[9]
Bruce Boxleitner, who plays the title character of
Tron, also appears de-aged in flashbacks; his real world character of Alan Bradley, however, appears as the actor's natural age.
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2011
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Ra.One
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The film centred around a video game, where the characters, G.One and Ra.One takes physical form and enters the real world.
Shah Rukh Khan plays a dual role in the film as Shekhar Subramaniam and G.One. Khan was de-aged for the part of G.One to make him look like a video game character.
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2011
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Hugo
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Ben Kingsley was de-aged for flashback scenes of a younger
Georges Melies.
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2013
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Grudge Match
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A film about
Robert De Niro (Billy "The Kid" McDonnen) and
Sylvester Stallone (Henry "Razor" Sharp) as boxing rivals. In the beginning of the film, both actors are de-aged to show them fighting each other in their youth/prime. The rest of the film is set several decades later.
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2013
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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This film is set decades before
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy; actor
Orlando Bloom reprises his role as the Elf character
Legolas and is de-aged in his scenes, to reflect the fact that the film's Elves do not age.
[1]
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2014
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
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Michael Caine was digitally de-aged for a scene set in 1975 featuring his character. This scene was ultimately cut from the film and has never been publicly released.
[10]
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2015
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Ant-Man
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Michael Douglas and
Martin Donovan, who play
Hank Pym and
Mitchell Carson, are both de-aged by 25 years, in a flashback scene set in 1989.
[3]
[11]
[8]
[4]
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2016
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Pee-wee's Big Holiday
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In this comedy film, actor
Paul Reubens reprises his role as
Pee-wee Herman 28 years after the previous Pee-wee film. De-aging was applied to Reubens to make him appear the same age as he was in his last appearance. During filming, Reubens wore powder and tape on his face.
[1]
[4]
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2016
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Fan
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In this Indian film,
Shah Rukh Khan stars in a double role as film star Aryan Khanna and obsessive fan Gaurav Chandna, who looks like Aryan but is around twenty years younger. Khan was de-aged for the part of Gaurav with a combination of visual effects and prosthetics.
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2016
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Captain America: Civil War
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Robert Downey Jr., who plays
Tony Stark, is de-aged in a digital recreation of a pivotal moment from the character's youth. LolaVFX analyzed footage of Downey from
Less than Zero (1987) as reference to achieve the youthful appearance Downey had around that period.
[3]
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2016
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American Pastoral
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Jennifer Connelly, who plays Dawn, is de-aged to look roughly 25 years younger. LolaVFX took inspiration from her appearance in
The Rocketeer (1991), focusing on the volume of her facial features.
[12]
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2016
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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Terence Stamp, who plays Abe Portman, is de-aged in the scenes in the loop of September 3, 1943, when he was in the army.
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2017
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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Kurt Russell, who plays
Ego, is de-aged in a flashback scene set on Earth in 1980.
[11] Visual effects supervisor Trent Claus disclosed that director
James Gunn desired to use
Escape from New York (1981) as a visual reference for Russell's appearance in the film's flashback, but given how Russell's character wore an
eyepatch in that film, the VFX crew could just use that film to take notes of how his skin folded and moved, ultimately choosing Russell's appearance in
Used Cars (1980) as the base reference.
[13]
Laura Haddock, who previously played
Meredith Quill in
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), was similar de-aged to a slight degree to enable her to play a young Meredith.
[14]
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2017
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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In this swashbuckler,
Johnny Depp, who plays the main character Captain
Jack Sparrow, is de-aged for a flashback scene, with
Anthony De La Torre standing in for him while wearing a digital replication of Depp's face depicting him as he looked back in
21 Jump Street (1987–1991) and
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
[11]
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2017
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle
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Colin Firth was de-aged for a flashback scene, years before the events of
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014).
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2018
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Ant-Man and the Wasp
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Michael Douglas,
Michelle Pfeiffer and
Laurence Fishburne who play
Hank Pym,
Janet van Dyne and
Bill Foster, respectively, are de-aged in flashback sequences.
[15]
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2018
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Aquaman
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Temuera Morrison and
Nicole Kidman are de-aged through CGI, to portray
Aquaman's parents, Thomas Curry and
Atlanna, in opening scenes set during Aquaman's childhood. In addition, CGI was used to de-age
Willem Dafoe for the scene where
Nuidis Vulko trains the young Arthur Curry.
[16]
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2019
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Captain Marvel
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Samuel L. Jackson and
Clark Gregg, who portray
Nick Fury and
Phil Coulson, are de-aged by 23 years for the entire film as it is set in 1995 (but filmed in 2018), whereas the previous films in which they had appeared in these roles had all been set in the present day. In Jackson's case, according to LolaVFX supervisor
Trent Claus, they watched several of Jackson's films from the 1990s to determine which ones they would use as visual reference, ultimately mainly choosing
One Eight Seven (1997) and bits of
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).
[17]
[18]
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2019
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Avengers: Endgame
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Multiple actors were digitally de-aged for different sequences.
Robert Downey Jr.,
Chris Evans,
Chris Hemsworth,
Scarlett Johansson and
Jeremy Renner were digitally de-aged for their 2012 appearances that recreate scenes from
The Avengers (2012) in which they respectively portray
Tony Stark,
Steve Rogers,
Thor,
Natasha Romanoff and
Clint Barton.
[19]
Michael Douglas,
John Slattery and
Stan Lee were also digitally de-aged for their 1970s appearances, in which they respectively portray
Hank Pym,
Howard Stark and a car driver, the latter being Lee's
final cameo role. The final cut of the film features 200 de-aging and aging shots.
[20]
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2019
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It Chapter Two
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Horror sequel in which child actors
Jaeden Martell,
Jeremy Ray Taylor,
Finn Wolfhard,
Chosen Jacobs,
Jack Dylan Grazer,
Sophia Lillis,
Wyatt Oleff and
Jackson Robert Scott are digitally de-aged to reprise their roles from
It (2017) in flashback scenes, having visibly aged in the two-year interval.
[21]
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2019
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Gemini Man
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In this science fiction film, actor
Will Smith is de-aged to portray a younger clone of his character.
[22]
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2019
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The Irishman
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In this
epic
crime film, actors
Robert De Niro,
Al Pacino and
Joe Pesci are digitally de-aged to portray younger versions of
Frank Sheeran,
Jimmy Hoffa and
Russell Bufalino respectively.
[23]
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2020
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
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A comic science fiction film starring
Alex Winter and
Keanu Reeves as Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan, portraying younger and older versions of Bill & Ted.
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2021
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Coming 2 America
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In this comedic sequel,
Eddie Murphy and
Arsenio Hall are de-aged in a flashback.
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2021
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Candyman
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Tony Todd, reprising his role as the original
Candyman, appears de-aged at the end of the film.
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2021
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
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Willem Dafoe and
Alfred Molina reprised their roles as
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin and
Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus, respectively, and were both de-aged by 19 and 17 years respectively to match their younger appearances from
Spider-Man (2002) and
Spider-Man 2 (2004), respectively.
[24]
[25]
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2022
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Scream
|
Skeet Ulrich reprises his role of
Billy Loomis from the original
Scream (1996), de-aged to appear as he did in 1996, in scenes featuring his daughter Sam Carpenter hallucinating with him due to him being her biological father.
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2022
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The Adam Project
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In this science fiction film, actress
Catherine Keener is de-aged to portray a younger version of her character.
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2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
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Nicolas Cage portrays Nicky Cage, a figment of Cage's imagination, seen as a younger
Wild at Heart (1990)-era version of himself.
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2022
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Acharya
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A de-aged
Chiranjeevi appears as a younger version of his character in a flashback scene.
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2022
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
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A de-aged
Paula Abdul appears as herself in a flashback scene.
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2022
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Vikram
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A de-aged
Kamal Haasan appears as himself in flashback scenes. The appearance for these scenes were referenced from the actor's 1986
movie which incidentally had the same title. The de-aged shots was not included on final film. Lokesh confirmed that on interview after the movie release, stating that " We initially planned to get up with visual effects company on UK and US. But it drastically increased the final budget of the film for a scene of 1 minute. So Lokesh, give that work to Indian company with limited budget. And adding that he is on mindset, if the output was not good he will remove that from final cut. Before going Censor, he feels like quality was not up to much and required more time to achieve this. So he took call to cut off. There was 6 more months work to go and if goes well, he is planning for that release as exclusive content via some other medium"
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2022
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Orphan: First Kill
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Isabelle Fuhrman is de-aged from Fuhrman's age, 25 to 9 years old, around 13 years, to recapture Fuhrman's age in the first film
Orphan (2009) for the prequel film. Noticeably, Fuhrman wasn't de-aged using CGI, like many other cases with de-aging, instead being de-aged with practical effects such a combination of
forced perspective shots,
camera angles and makeup.
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2022
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Samaritan
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A de-aged
Sylvester Stallone appears in a flashback scene.
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2022
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Lifemark
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Kirk Cameron and Rebecca Rogers, who play Jimmy and Susan Colton; the adoptive parents of the main character David Colton, were de-aged to make them look roughly 20 years younger to depict them at around the age that Jimmy and Susan would have been when they first adopted David in flashback scenes.
[26]
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2022
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Laal Singh Chaddha
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In this Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film starring
Aamir Khan and directed by
Advait Chandan,
Shah Rukh Khan appears in a cameo appearance, playing a teenage version of himself. He was de-aged to portray the teenage version.
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2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water
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Stephen Lang,
Matt Gerald and
Giovanni Ribisi are respectively de-aged to match their appearances as
Miles Quaritch, Lyle Wainfleet and Parker Selfridge in
Avatar (2009) for video recordings the Avatar Recombinants of the former two see that took place prior to the first film's climax.
Sigourney Weaver is also de-aged to match her appearance as Dr. Grace Augustine from the original film in a dream sequence her Avatar's daughter Kiri experiences when connecting to Eywa.
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2023
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Scream VI
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Like in
Scream (2022),
Skeet Ulrich reprises his role of
Billy Loomis from the original
Scream (1996), de-aged to appear as he did in 1996, in scenes featuring his daughter Sam Carpenter hallucinating with him due to him being her biological father.
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2023
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Fast X
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Joaquim de Almeida is de-aged to reprise his role as Hernan Reyes for the film's flashback sequences taking place during the events of
Fast Five (2011), for which
Jason Momoa is de-aged as well due to the tenth film's
retconning of his character Dante Reyes, Hernan's son, in the fifth film.
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2023
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The Flash
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Michael Shannon is de-aged for the alternate 2013 timeline created by
Barry Allen / The Flash to match his appearance as
Zod in
Man of Steel (2013).
Helen Slater and
Nicolas Cage are also de-aged for the film for their respective cameos as
Supergirl from
the 1984 film of the same name and
Superman from the unproduced film
Superman Lives.
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2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
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Harrison Ford is de-aged for the film's opening sequence, which consists of a
World War II
flashback of
Indiana Jones fighting
Nazis set in 1944, for which Ford was de-aged back to how he looked during the release period of the first three
Indiana Jones films in order to recapture the feeling that the footage was shot in the 1980s. To achieve this,
Industrial Light & Magic trawled archive material of a younger Ford and matched it with freshly shot footage in addition to giving Ford the original jacket he used in
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Ford was "spooked" a bit with the result, but anyway impressed for its realism, yet affirmed that the technology didn't make him feel
nostalgia for his youth.
[27] Impressionist
Anthony Ingruber served as the character's on-set
body double before Ford's likeness and voice were inserted over him through CGI.
[28]
Mads Mikkelsen was also de-aged to portray his character Dr. Jürgen Voller younger, but through a different method.
[29]
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2024
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Here
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Tom Hanks and
Robin Wright will be de-aged through methods such as new hyperrealistic technology and AI-generated face replacements for the film adaptation of
Richard McGuire's
comic strip "
Here" (2014) in order to allow Hanks and Wright to star in the plot, which spans generations. Director
Robert Zemeckis cited his need to employ de-aging for the film due to Metaphysic's feeling as the "global leaders" of the feature-quality AI content necessary to help him tell the film's story, which wouldn't work out without Hanks and Wright seamlessly transforming into younger versions of themselves.
[30]
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