Not only is it cool to see it once again in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, but it’s exciting to think how it may further propagate in the industry and improve — opening up all kinds of amazing creative opportunities for the future.
Things admittedly got off to a rough start with Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy, but since then we’ve seen stunning examples in movies like Ant-Man (with Michael Douglas) and Captain America: Civil War (with Robert Downey Jr.).
Digitally de-aging actors for flashbacks and various other purposes has become a more and more popular tool for filmmakers in the modern age, and we’ve seen a number of examples of it in the last few years.