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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI to de-age Creator/HarrisonFord as Indy for flashback sequences within the film.

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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI uses a variety of techniques collectively dubbed the ‘ILM Faceswap’ to de-age Creator/HarrisonFord as Indy for the opening flashback sequences within sequence set in 1944. The process reportedly took “[[https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/indiana-jones-5-dial-of-destiny-vfx-ilm-faceswap a hundred VFX artists]]” and machine learning to achieve the film.finished result.
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* ''BMF'' bizarrely has Music/{{Eminem}}, then aged 49, [[TheCameo cameo]] as White Boy Rick, with digital deaging to make him look like a seventeen year old.

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* ''BMF'' bizarrely has Music/{{Eminem}}, then aged 49, [[TheCameo [[CelebrityCameo cameo]] as White Boy Rick, with digital deaging to make him look like a seventeen year old.
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For most of film history, the go-to tool for de-aging an actor has been makeup, to varying degrees of success. But modern innovations in CGI have allowed filmmakers to digitally de-age their actors, by digitally erasing wrinkles, mapping footage from the actor's youth onto the modern face, or some combination of the two. It's often a subtle variation of SerkisFolk--expect set images from films employing this technique to have actors' faces covered in plastic dots. It may also be combined with DigitalHeadSwap, placing the de-aged face on another actor entirely, usually a stunt double who can do things the older actor is no longer capable of or has the body proportions the character is supposed to have while the older actor doesn't have them anymore. It has allowed to mostly avoid the problems of FakeShemp in a number of modern works.

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For most of film history, the go-to tool for de-aging an actor has been makeup, to varying degrees of success. But modern innovations in CGI have allowed filmmakers to digitally de-age their actors, by digitally erasing wrinkles, mapping footage from the actor's youth onto the modern face, or some combination of the two. It's often a subtle variation of SerkisFolk--expect set images from films employing this technique to have actors' faces covered in plastic dots. It may also be combined with DigitalHeadSwap, placing the de-aged face on another actor entirely, usually a stunt double who can do things the older actor is no longer capable of or has the body proportions the character is supposed to have while the older actor doesn't have them anymore. It has allowed to mostly avoid the problems of FakeShemp in a number of modern works.
works. At the moment, this is done with adult actors and recreating their still adult younger selves as the technology is not there yet for deaging an adult Creator/DrewBarrymore or Creator/DakotaFanning into their child actress bodies and voices of the respective ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and ''Film/IAmSam'' eras.
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*** The last episode of Season 3 features [[spoiler:Force-sensitive clones of Moff Gideon. All of them sport Creator/GiancarloEsposito's younger face.]]

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*** The last episode of Season 3 features [[spoiler:Force-sensitive clones of Moff Gideon. All of them sport Creator/GiancarloEsposito's younger face.]]]] This wasn't the first time that the actor had his face de-aged, however: similar trick was done for one episode of non-linear Netflix show ''Kaleidoscope''.
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*** The last episode of Season 3 features [[spoiler:Force-sensitive clones of Moff Gideon. All of them sport Creator/GiancarloEsposito's younger face.]]
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Added back in (Didn't fully read the description.) Digital head swaps OF younger versions of actors fall under this trope as well.

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* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' used this for a scene where a recreation of [[Creator/SeanYoung Rachael]] interacts with the aged Deckard.
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That was an entirely digital recreation/head swap. Sean Young was never on set.


* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' used this for a scene where a recreation of [[Creator/SeanYoung Rachael]] interacts with the aged Deckard.
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** Season 3 features various flashbacks which, in addition to practical effects like makeup and wigs/hair dye, lightly de-ages the various TNG characters anywhere from 1-2 decades, depending on when the flashback in question takes place.
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** Season 2 does this when [[spoiler:the immortal Q appears looking exactly like he did in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Then he alters his appearance to mock how much older Picard has become, looking like Creator/JohnDeLancie does now.]]

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** Season 2 does this when [[spoiler:the immortal Q appears looking exactly like he did in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Then he alters his appearance to mock how much older Picard has become, looking like Creator/JohnDeLancie does now. He then maintains the old appearance throughout the rest of the season.]]



* Season 1 of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' used CGI in flashbacks to show a youthful version of the character played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins.

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* Season 1 of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' used CGI in flashbacks to show a youthful version of the character played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins. It's helped along by only appearing for a few seconds of screen time, and the character not speaking.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


When well-executed, it can be a nearly seamless visual effect. If done poorly, can be an example of the UncannyValley.

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When well-executed, it can be a nearly seamless visual effect. If done poorly, can be an example of the UncannyValley.
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** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' also used this for Patrick Stewart's cameo at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, the CGI was much lower quality than what was used in ''The Last Stand'' and as a result, Xavier falls into the UncannyValley.

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** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' also used this for Patrick Stewart's cameo at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, the CGI was much lower quality than what was used in ''The Last Stand'' and as a result, Xavier falls into the UncannyValley.
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* Ellie's face in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' is based off Creator/AshleyJohnson, her voice actress, deaged to a teen.

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* Ellie's face in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' is based off Creator/AshleyJohnson, her voice actress, deaged to look like a teen.
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* ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'': [[MilestoneCelebration During the show's 20th anniversary special in 2023]], Creator/JimmyKimmel interacted with a digitally-recreated incarnation of himself from 2003.
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* ''BMF'' bizarrely has Music/{{Eminem}}, then aged 49, [[TheCameo cameo]] as White Boy Rick, with digital deaging to make him look like a seventeen year old.
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* Ellie's face in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' is based off Creator/AshleyJohnson, her voice actress, deaged to a teen.
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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI to de-age Creator/HarrisonFord as the title character for flashback sequences within the film.

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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI to de-age Creator/HarrisonFord as the title character Indy for flashback sequences within the film.
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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI to de-age the title character for flashback sequences within the film.

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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI to de-age Creator/HarrisonFord as the title character for flashback sequences within the film.

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* ''[[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Jones 5]]'' will use CGI to digitally de-age Indiana Jones, as revealed in set photos.

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* ''[[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Jones 5]]'' will ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' use CGI to digitally de-age Indiana Jones, as revealed in set photos.the title character for flashback sequences within the film.
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* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' makes extensive use of this to make several characters look younger than they did in ''Series/BreakingBad'', the show to which it is a prequel.

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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.
* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin still has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen, his age at the time.)


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** ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.
** ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin still has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen, his age at the time.)
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* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin still has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen.)

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* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin still has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen.nineteen, his age at the time.)
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* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Attack of the Clones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen.)

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* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Attack of the Clones''.''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin still has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen.)
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* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' Part V features flashbacks of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker set just before ''Attack of the Clones''. While the crew did make attempts to digitally de-age Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen, the results were...[[SpecialEffectFailure not great]]. (For one, Anakin has noticeable facial wrinkles, making him look much older than nineteen.)

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I see there's some uncertainty about whether it was used at all, or just badly. I'll take it off for now.


* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.



* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.
** Part V of ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' includes flashback scenes to a training duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker. Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen are made to look as they did in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.

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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks: the Return'' features a scene where Agent Cooper [[spoiler:saves Laura Palmer, with Sheryl Lee made youthful through a combination of CGI and lighting]].
* Season 1 of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' used CGI in flashbacks to show a youthful version of the character played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins.


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* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.
** Part V of ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' includes flashback scenes to a training duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker. Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen are made to look as they did in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks: the Return'' features a scene where Agent Cooper [[spoiler:saves Laura Palmer, with Sheryl Lee made youthful through a combination of CGI and lighting]].
* Season 1 of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' used CGI in flashbacks to show a youthful version of the character played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins.
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** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/AlfredMolina reprise their roles as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus from ''Film/SpiderMan1'' and ''Film/SpiderMan2'' respectively, with de-aging tech being used to make them appear as they did in their debut films.

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** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/AlfredMolina reprise their roles as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus from ''Film/SpiderMan1'' and ''Film/SpiderMan2'' respectively, with de-aging tech being used to make them appear as they did in their debut films. [[spoiler: However, this trope is not used for Creator/ThomasHadenChurch (Sandman) or Creator/RhysIfans (The Lizard) when their characters are BroughtDownToNormal in the climax, as the movie instead used StockFootage from ''Film/SpiderMan3'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', respectively, for those scenes.]]
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** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/AlfredMolina reprise their roles as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus from ''Film/SpiderMan'' and ''Film/SpiderMan2'' respectively, with de-aging tech being used to make them appear as they did in their debut films.

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** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/AlfredMolina reprise their roles as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus from ''Film/SpiderMan'' ''Film/SpiderMan1'' and ''Film/SpiderMan2'' respectively, with de-aging tech being used to make them appear as they did in their debut films.

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* Season 2 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' does this when [[spoiler:the immortal Q appears looking exactly like he did in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Then he alters his appearance to mock how much older Picard has become, looking like Creator/JohnDeLancie does now.]]

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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** After ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', Creator/BrentSpiner was uninterested in playing Data onscreen, believing he'd grown too old to play an ageless android, only appearing as a voice in the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' finale "These Are The Voyages...". Thanks to advancements in digital deaging, he agreed to play Data again, appearing in Picard's dreams in season 1.
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Season 2 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' does this when [[spoiler:the immortal Q appears looking exactly like he did in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Then he alters his appearance to mock how much older Picard has become, looking like Creator/JohnDeLancie does now.]]



* In 2021, Music/{{ABBA}} reunited to record a new album, ''Music/{{Voyage|2021}}''. They digitally recreated themselves as they looked in the late 70s for their music videos. Notably, Björn Ulvaes and Benny Andersson, both of whom were bearded at this point, had to shave their beards in order to get digitally scanned. It was especially tough for Benny, as he'd been bearded since the time ABBA had originally started.

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* In 2021, Music/{{ABBA}} reunited to record a new album, ''Music/{{Voyage|2021}}''. They digitally recreated themselves as they looked in the late 70s 1970s for their music videos. Notably, Björn Ulvaes and Benny Andersson, both of whom were bearded at this point, had to shave their beards in order to get digitally scanned. It was especially tough for Benny, as he'd been bearded since the time ABBA had originally started.
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* Season 2 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' does this when [[the immortal Q appears looking exactly like he did in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Then he alters his appearance to mock how much older Picard has become, looking like Creator/JohnDeLancie does now.]]

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* Season 2 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' does this when [[the [[spoiler:the immortal Q appears looking exactly like he did in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Then he alters his appearance to mock how much older Picard has become, looking like Creator/JohnDeLancie does now.]]
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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''

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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Mando, Grogu & co. Creator/MarkHamill's de-aged face was put on the body of stand-in Max Lloyd-Jones.]] The de-aged character returned in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', looking far more accurate this time.

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