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“I was like, ‘Oh, that will probably be like Negotiator face,’” Jackson told Yahoo Entertainment, referring to the 1998 thriller that had him squaring off against Kevin Spacey (watch above). “Which is probably what it was.” https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/samuel-l-jackson-reveals-mid90s-role-thinks-captain-marvel-de-aging-based-160008225.html  

The subject came up in an interview with ComicBook.com, which saw the actor discussing the upcoming Captain Marvel. Now that Jackson has been de-aged to assume the role of a young Nick Fury, the star was asked if he’d be open to depicting Mace Windu’s early years through a similar transformation. In his response, Jackson […]

To create the desired look, the filmmakers turned to visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend, who previously assembled the de-aging looks for the earlier Avengers movies, alongside artists at the visual effects house Lola to transform Jackson and Gregg into what their characters might have looked like in the mid-’90s.   https://www.forbes.com/sites/adawson/2019/02/27/samuel-l-jackson-and-clark-gregg-de-aged-in-captain-marvel/#64002200487b

International Cinematographers Guild “[De-aging is] a painstaking, frame-by-frame manipulation of the image,” Townsend explains. “And since I’ve used them many times previously, Lola Visual Effects was our main go-to for that work. We spent a huge amount of time in preproduction determining how the younger Sam Jackson would look. That included what we could do […]

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/19/captain-marvel-digital-deageing-samuel-l-jackson

Captain Marvel marks Samuel L. Jackson’s ninth appearance as Nick Fury, but this Nick is a lowly S.H.I.E.L.D. desk jockey (who hasn’t yet met any superheroes). He’s younger than we’ve ever seen him (Jackson was digitally de-aged for the role), and perhaps most shocking of all, he’s missing his signature eyepatch. https://ew.com/movies/captain-marvel-first-look-images/#fire-and-fury

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 […]