I’d love to Bogart “dubbed” into another movie, maybe like Boss Hog in The Dukes Of Hazzard.
Steve Martin did this in the movie Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, and HBO used this gimmick extensively in the sitcom Dream On with Brian Benben.
Awhile back I saw a great LOTR parody made up of old clips of Humprey Bogart movies I wish I could remember where I saw it.
There was an interesting episode of Murder, She Wrote that used a 30 year old movie for the “flashback” scenes and the still-living actors in the present-day scenes. It worked pretty well, from the little I caught of it. I can’t recall any other TV show quite like it.
I don’t know; the examples I’ve seen of dead actors giving “simulated performances” have been underwhelming (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and that one Sopranos episode come to mind). The technology and technique still have some maturing to do.
The Woody Allen movie Play It Again, Sam had scenes done like that.
No, it didn’t.
Play it Again Sam has secenes with Jerry Lacy playing Humphrey Bogart and commenting on Woody’'s character’s life. He plays some ()imaginary) scenes, but the only clip from an old movie is the opening , where they use the end of Casablanca (and they had to, for reasons clear to anyone watching the film), but it was put in there as a movie, with Woody’s chaqracter watching it. It didn’t use old scenes as if they were part of the present-day film.
The Limey used footage from an unrelated film made over 30 years prior to it (Poor Cow) to depict the flashbacks of the central character (both played by Terence Stamp).
Though Dead Men is truly inspired, I think the idea as described in the OP is horrible. They’re already doing it to old films to sell junk on TV.
I love Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Amen, brother, on both counts.