South Park-skabere overvejede film med deepfake-udgave af Trump

Ideen er dog lige nu "on hold".
Tekst: Magnus Groth-Andersen
Publiceret 2022-08-16

Trey Parker og Matt Stone er ikke bare kendt som skaberne bag South Park, de har også rodet med andre filmprojekter såsom den ikoniske Team America: World Police, og de overvejede på et tidspunkt at lave en hel film om Donald Trump, hvor de brugte deepfake-teknologi til at "spille" ham i filmen.

Dette er blevet afsløret i et interview med Los Angeles Times, og her fortæller de at den ide faktisk opstod for mange, mange år siden, men har været "on hold" i en lang periode.

"It's sort of on hold. It was very timely and the timeliness of it has passed. We'd have to majorly rethink it to do it now. It was going to be Deep Fake: The Movie. It was about this guy who looked exactly like Trump because we deep fake Trump's face onto him. And it was this whole funny thing because, of course, it ends up with Trump just naked and getting run through the wringer and everything, and that's why it was so funny and so timely."

De endte dog med at beholde deepfake-studiet skabt til at lave filmen, som blandt andet resulterede i deres Pandemic Special.

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