Casting

It'd be nice to think that we live in the timeline where the most noteworthy effect of Deepfakes will be to swap one Hollywood actor for another but somehow I doubt we're going to be that lucky:

In some parallel universe, there’s a version of Casino Royale with Hugh Jackman playing everyone’s favorite suave British agent, James Bond. And one in which Matthew McConaughey took the Leo role in Titanic. And DiCaprio and Brad Pitt co-starred in Brokeback Mountain. And Saved by the Bell’s Tiffani Thiessen played Rachel in Friends.

That being said, I have to confess that the biggest effect of my watching in the digital dojo was a powerful urge to see the best film the Wachowskis ever made again, as it's been way too long since I last saw The Matrix and it was definitely indisputably very good, whatever you might think of the two sequels plus The Animatrix [note]Like any multi-author shared world collection, The Animatrix was uneven, but the good bits were seriously good, so I think it well worth my time.[/note] that followed it. So from Hollywood's point of view that's a success, insofar as right now The Matrix isn't on Netflix and my DVD copies are long since gone so I'm going to have to go and pay someone some money to watch it again. Ka-ching!

[Via The RISKS Digest]