Will Smith, Gemini Man

De-aged Will Smith. They could have just put a wig on him and filmed him with a soft focus lens.

They digitally de-aged Will Smith in this thing so he could play his own 25-year-old clone. Will Smith plays a sniper who murders people for the government and his clone is given the task of killing him.

It's a shame Jaden Smith doesn't look more like Dad. Jaden playing the clone could have been a nice father-son project. Might help them work out any Oedipal conflicts since they'd be trying to murder each other. It could have been the triumph they hoped After Earth would be.

Robert Walker and Robert Walker, Jr, looked enough alike that they could gave played roles like this, although poor Robert Walker died at 32. Maybe Alan Hale and Alan Hale, Jr.

Identical twins often don't look THAT identical, so a clone shouldn't look precisely like his...what do you call the person you're a clone of?

Variety pointed out that they've been trying to make this movie for twenty-two years. Only now has digital technology reached the point where it was possible. Which means that "had the filmmakers known how long it would take, they could have shot the clone scenes in 1997 and then cast the same actor to play the older character two decades later". They could have filmed young Will Smith bragging about his mint condition 22-year-old car.

Remember the episode of Maude where Walter was accused of being a flasher? In the end, police bring in the REAL flasher played by an actor who looks just like him.

Think of how happy an actor who looks like a young Will Smith would have been to play this role. It would probably be more interesting for the audience to watch.

I worked years ago in an alcoholism treatment center. One of the patients looked like Bob Newhart.

Why did it even need to be a clone? Is it plausible that anyone would bother making a clone of Will Smith? Couldn't it have been about Will Smith and his pissed-off son trying to kill each other? The same attributes that made Will Smith become a trained killer would have also have made him an exceptionally bad father.

Or maybe Will Smith could play a great father whose son is a murderous spoiled ingrate.