# Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?

- Source: Guardian Business
- Published: 2026-10-20T06:00:18+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/20/ai-actors-val-kilmer-as-deep-as-the-grave-tilly-norwood
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/hollywood-ai-listers-is-the-technology-ready-to-rival-flesh-and-blood--03041e/

As a freaky Val Kilmer doppelganger stars in a new western and faux starlet Tilly Norwood is set for her feature debut, experts are split on whether mainstream adoption is a long way down the line – or just around the corner ‘Don’t fear the dead – and don’t fear me.” An exact facsimile of a young Val Kilmer, not quite dead and not quite alive, utters that baiting line in the trailer for the new we

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