Chinese Studio Wants to Bring Back Bruce Lee With AI

If you are a film lover, one of the great things of the ancient classics is that you can always find something to appreciate when you revisit them. If you are a studio director, one of the big things about the old classics is that you have them and that you can milk them for every penny. At the Shanghai International Film Festival, several Chinese cinema studios announced Thursday that they would take their archives from Martial Arts Classics and I-I-I-Iteriner.

The “Kung Fi Movie Heritage Project, supported by the government, 100 classics IA revitalization Project” will have great Kung Fu films with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li and will give them a new life (but almost not better) with the help of AI. According to The Hollywood ReporterZhang Pimin, president of China Film Foundation, described the project as an attempt to give a look at films that comply with the viewing of contemporary films. “”

It would be one thing if it was simply a restoration project or a technique to increase the resolution of something that feels more modern, but According to the Hollywood ReporterIt seems that at least part of the efforts will continue to redo the films with AI filters at the top. For example, a trailer for the new AI-ED taken on John Woo’s film in 1986 A better tomorrow was shown at the festival and would have transformed his Chow Yun-Gras in mind in a character of Cyberpunk appearance. The new catch, entitled A better tomorrow: Cyber ​​Frontier, is marketed as “the first animated feature in the world during the processing AI” in the world “. Yuck.

The studios invited AI animation companies to get involved in the effort of “revitalization”, which will seek to “reshape the visual aesthetics” of films while trying to “pay tribute to the original work”, by setting up a fund of 100 million yuan (around 14 million dollars) to help roll the ball.

The other films that will be involved in the project include Bruce Lee Fury fist (1972), Jackie Chan Drunken master (1978) and Jet Li Once upon a time in China (1991) – All the films that you can watch right now and that you will find just as magical and captivating as the day they made theaters for the first time. THE cascade work Always gets up and the work of the camera always slaps. You can find the three and many other martial arts classics, streaming. If you are a stick for image quality, movies like Fury fist have 4K reissues Available on Blu-ray. Just watch these movies. They do not need the salience of AI to be relevant.