Philip Seymour Hoffman to be Digitally Recreated in THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY

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Philip Seymour Hoffman's passing left the Hunger Games franchise hanging. Studio execs at Lionsgate had to sit down and figure out how to keep his character in the film alive. There were two options on the table: cast someone else for the same role, or digitally recreate Hoffman. Either way, it will cost millions.



Hollywood Life comes forward with the final decision, according to which Hoffman will be brought back to life with the help of CG technology. After all, he had completed all his scenes for MockingJay - Part 1, with only one major scene left for Part 2.



Read below to find out how studios could work around the passing of an actor who is integral to the film in the future...

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Rob Legato, who recently worked on “The Wolf of Wall Street”, is a special effects veteran and expert. Though he is not connected to the Hunger Games films, he believes current technology is capable of producing convincing, computer-generated images of Hoffman.

“These days the technology of using someone’s likeness is a whole lot easier to do. I won’t say you could generate a Philip Seymour Hoffman with all the acting ability, but you could certainly replicate him for a shot or two,” he said.

Legato then went on to predict that Hollywood would eventually require actors to go through comprehensive digital facial and body scans for the purposes of recreating their likenesses in CG, “in case something like this (an actor’s death) does happen – and it seems to have happened quite a bit lately.”

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[via GMA Network]

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