What if Prince T’Challa, played by the late Chadwick Boseman in “Black Panther”, had been played by Idris Elba? Thanks to “deepfake” technology, a fan imagined the result.
Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland as Doc and Marty in Back to the Future, Will Smith as Neo in The Matrix, Tom Cruise as Tony Stark in Iron Man or even Jim Carrey in place of Jack Nicholson in The Shining…
In recent years, web artists have had a great time with technology deepfake which allows to digitally embed – and often in a very convincing way – the face of an actor on that of another actor. What fun to paint alternative castings with a digital brush.
Recently, it was the character of Black Panther, interpreted by the late Chadwick Boseman, that the so-called HD stryder decided to take an interest in on his Youtube channel.
In a series of short videos, the last of which was posted yesterday, he imagined the famous Prince T’Challa played by Idris Elba, adding the face of the star in several striking sequences of the Marvel feature film, for a particularly impressive result. .
Present in 4 Marvel Cinematic Universe films, Prince T’Challa, aka Black Panther, was played by Chadwick Boseman, who tragically died in 2020 at the age of 43. The legend that surrounds the character will continue in the cinema next November, in Wakanda Forever.
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