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Pat Redmond In Jon Erwin’s telling, even the most advanced visual effects tools are no match for the physics of water.
The director of the film “Young Washington,” the historical drama releasing nationwide on Friday (July 3), needed to film a scene where a pre-Revolutionary War George Washington (William Franklyn-Miller) and his companion nearly drown in an icy river.
But icy rivers are, of course, cold — and subjecting actors or even stunt doubles to such conditions seemed too dangerous. Thus, Erwin relied on a combination of a 50-foot pool of water the crew built in Ireland, filmed close-ups of the actors, props of ice and a suite of generative AI tools to help create the scene, using the technology to help generate wider shots in the sequence.
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