{
  "id": 15714232,
  "title": "Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/hollywood-ai-listers-is-the-technology-ready-to-rival-flesh-and-blood",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-20T06:00:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/20/ai-actors-val-kilmer-as-deep-as-the-grave-tilly-norwood"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}