Holograms US has announced that Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx will perform again, in 2016 thanks to holographic technology (and their ability to obtain the rights to their performances). The agency is known for its light-generated recreations of celebrities, dead and alive, like Tupac Shakur, Selena, Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Vin Diesel and Jimmy Kimmel. Hologram U.S. founder and CEO Alki David said his company is actively trying to ruin, er, commemorate the legacies of several performers, but Kaufman and Foxx’s heirs were now the most “amenable” to his “vision”. So now you can live your dream of seeing the two iconic comedians in arguably their most watered-down form, because YouTube videos are for suckers.
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There are no guarantees that audiences are going to like these virtual resurrections though.
At best, the shows offer fans fresh opportunities to see the work of artists who each had a significant impact on comedy but have been out of the cultural consciousness for decades.
We didn’t think there would be worse hologram-related news this week than the release of that cut-rate Jem movie, but we were wrong.
Hologram U.S. has had a busy 2015.
Samantha Chang, the director of licensing at CMG Worldwide which represented the comics, told the Times: ‘You can now be in multiple places at once, and literally [sic] come back from the dead. The idea creeps him out, he writes, and “if they respected the ‘work, ‘ if they respected comedy, they’d know this is a awful idea”.
“So what is a biopic?” he said. Personally, I love the controversy. “The curiosity factor certainly brings people in”.
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“What if Andy actually jumps out of the technology and really appears?”
