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abcnews.go.com How Hollywood is giving its biggest stars digital facelifts ABC News Johnny Depp is 53 years old but he doesn’t look a day over 26 in the new “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie — at least for a few moments. There was no plastic surgeon involved, heavy makeup or archival footage used to take […]

hollywoodreporter.com Johnny Depp to Kurt Russell: How “De-Aging” Stars Became Hollywood’s VFX Trick Du Jour May 30, 2017 5:30am PT by Carolyn Giardina But this complex work is “unforgiving; you get it right or it’s glaringly obvious.” When a young version of Johnny Depp’s zany Jack Sparrow appears in a flashback in Disney’s Pirates of the […]

Cinema Blend By Adam Holmes Warning: minor spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 are ahead! Kurt Russell spent the majority of his time as Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 looking like his usual self, complete with glorious beard. However, out first glimpse of the character in the movie came in […]

Washington Post Analysis | Is young Kurt Russell in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ the best de-aging of an actor ever? https://www.facebook.com/comicriffs Kurt Russell portrays a godlike character named Ego in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,″ which opens May 5. Kurt Russell portrays a godlike character named Ego in “Guardians of the Galaxy […]

nypost.com ‘Rogue One’ proves stars don’t have to be alive to still be on the screen Kyle Smith The greatest special effect in “Rogue One” isn’t a planet being wiped out or the whizzing dogfights of the rebels’ X-wing fighters. What’s really breathtaking about the new “Star Wars” movie is the way its technical wizards […]

“I’m all for a prequel myself after seeing myself CGI-ed in the beginning of the movie, 30 years younger, which was incredible”. Douglas family affair for Ant-Man – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Michael Douglas with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, son Dylan and daughter Carys at the Ant-Man premiere Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas made the European premiere of Ant-Man a […]

“In Ant-Man’s opening scene, Michael Douglas’s Hank Pym strides into S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to tender his resignation. Well, that’s not 100 percent right — it’s definitely Hank Pym, and it’s definitely S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, but it’s not quite Michael Douglas, at least as we know him in 2015. The scene takes place in 1989, and the Douglas […]

“Most of Pym’s history is explained in two relatively brief scenes (one of which shows a younger version of Douglas in perhaps the best onscreen de-aging we’ve ever seen), while an extended sequence halfway through the film features a surprise cameo that you’ve probably heard about by now”. http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/ant-man/247485/ant-man-review

“The most spectacular sight in Ant-Man comes at the very beginning. An official-looking meeting in a big expansive room, filled with faces we’ve seen from other Marvel movies, is suddenly joined by what must be a ghost. It’s Michael Douglas, but not the goateed, 70-year-old Michael Douglas cast in Ant-Man. It’s Michael Douglas from the […]

“The film cleverly inserts itself into the ongoing Marvel universe, including a prologue that contains the most remarkable de-aging of an actor I have ever seen. The scene features Michael Douglas aged back to his  Black Rain days, and it’s jaw-dropping in its quality and its seamlessness. I don’t know how much the effects cost […]