Harrison Ford’s scene partner in “The Call of the Wild,” which opened Friday, is the figment of some animator’s imagination, a “dog” that isn’t really there.
Lately there’s been a lot of that in Ford’s career.
In “Blade Runner 2049,” his character hangs out in Vegas with credible facsimiles of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. In “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” leftover footage of the late Carrie Fisher (as Leia) was digitally integrated into the movie, making an immortal character even more so.
Ford has made more than 50 movies and been photographed from every angle, so he exists as data that could be reconstituted and repurposed by animators (much as the very late James Dean will be in “Finding Jack”).
How does the legendary actor feel about the fact that in the coming world of necro-cinema and reanimation, there may always be a Ford in our future?