10 Strangest Movie Changes Made After Filming
4. Using Deepfake Tech To Remove Profanity - Fall
Last year's low-budget survival thriller Fall was acquired by Lionsgate after filming was completed, at which point the distributor insisted that the filmmakers find a way to remove more than 30 uses of the word "f**k" from the movie, to ensure it could be released as a PG-13 and maximise profits.
Rather than bloat the film's tiny $3 million budget with pesky reshoots, director Scott Mann came up with his own novel solution - employing the services of his own AI filmmaking company, Flawless, to deepfake the actors' faces and voices to remove the offending words and replace them with more family-friendly equivalents.
Despite how potentially messy and disruptive this might sound, it's impressively seamless in the final film, enough that few would've ever picked up on any AI deepfake chicanery.
Considering how well it worked, though, and in turn propelled the film to greater box office success, don't be shocked if this sort of thing becomes far more common in the future.