• SMillerNL@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If the company uses a reference to you to make money, I’d definitely feel entitled to compensation.

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      1 month ago

      It’s not even a reference to Scarlett, it’s at best a reference to a movie that she has no rights over.

      She was offered a job, refused it, and they went with a different actress. She doesn’t own her “likeness”. They owe nothing to her or her ego.

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        1 month ago

        But it doesn’t reference the whole movie, does it. It’s meant to invoke a memory of a specific character in the movie, since that’s the business Altman is in.

        And we don’t know what kind of deal Johansen struck for that movie. Maybe she does own her likeness in it. We’ll see, I guess.

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      1 month ago

      This Hollywood idea that famous people are owed perpetual passive income for work they did decades ago needs to die in a fire.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      By reference do you mean somewhat similar sounding voice? This is status quo for voice acting. Do you think if someone tries to hire James Earl Jones for a voice part and he says no they throw their arms up, say fuck it and hire Megan Mullally? When hiring a voice actor you have a certain sound in mind you are going for and you take the closest thing your budget allows.

      I do get off on how heated this whole debate has gotten with everyone picking the side of completely unrelatable rich people. I’m waiting for a good AI generated porno with altman and johansen reaching forgiveness in the form of a passionate 69.

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        1 month ago

        No, I mean referring to the movie Her which features the voice of Johansen as an AI assistant

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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      1 month ago

      It’s not the script writer or the producer that’s complaining though. I think it’s more reasonable for them to want compensation.