The Sunday Read: ‘What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?’

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Conventional makeup could have taken a decade off Hanks, who is now 68, but not half a century. The crux with CGI is time and money. Persuading us that we're watching Hanks and Wright in their 20s would have required hundreds of VFX artists, tens of millions of dollars, and months of post-production work. Doable, in theory, but major studios don't spend that kind of money on movies like here.