James Earl Jones says goodbye to Darth Vader voice to make way for artificial intelligence – Diffusion (LucasFilm)
One of the most famous characters in the “Star Wars” science fiction saga is the iconic villain Darth Vaderto which the actor has lent his voice for more than 40 years James Earl Jonesbut as confirmed in a Vanity Fair article, the actor’s voice was recreated by a artificial intelligence.
Just like what happened in ‘The Boba Fett Book’, where the even the voice of actor Mark Hamill was produced by an artificial intelligenceadded to the fact that his portrayal of the young Anakin Skywalker was produced by CGI, now the actor who voiced Darth Vader from the movie ‘A New Hope’, who had re-recorded some lines for both Rogue One as well as “The Last Jedi”.
How did the production reproduce the voice of actor James Earl Jones in the new Star Wars training?
91-year-old actor James Earl Jones has permanently ditched ‘Star Wars’ and will not record anything for the saga’s villain. Which doesn’t mean we’ll stop listening to him, since the actor has given up the rights to his voice so Disney can continue. recreating it using artificial intelligence in the next installments of the saga.
For example, this will happen in the next “Ahsoka” series in which Darth Vader will also appear. The work for these trials, where the voice of actor James Earl Jones will be reconstructed, as happened in ‘The Boba Fett Book’, will be the Ukrainian company called repechage, specializing in recreating the voices of artists of the past. The person in charge of this work was Bogdan Belyaev, who focused on the synthesis of Jones’s voice and on the generation of new dialogues for the episodes of “Obi-Wan Kenobi”.
As according to the media Vanity FairBelyaen finished the work process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, which meant she had to send audio quickly to Skywalker Sound before the conflict became more problematic.
As for Skywalker Sound, their technicians didn’t just use Belyaev-produced audio, they also benefited from some advice from James Earl Jones himself, who oversaw the process to ensure the recordings of his la item will be in good hands.
In addition, Matthew Wood, sound editor of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, described the figure giving voice to Darth Vader as a “Benevolent godfather”which started and now abandons Hollywood’s most popular adventure and science fiction saga, but which will still remain there for all fans.
Source: Nacion Flix
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