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George Bush to suffer CGI assassination

Posted by Cory Bergman on August 31, 2006

The UK’s Channel 4 has produced a movie that opens with the assassination of President Bush in front of a Chicago hotel. But what makes it even more interesting is the fact they’ve used CGI special effects to use Bush’s actual face. “We studied hours and hours of footage of Bush,” said director Gabriel Range. “The scenes are created by a mixture of special effects, stock footage and digitally compositing our actors onto the archive of Bush.” Range is shopping the movie to the US networks, which of course will turn it down. But wait until it hits YouTube. Publicity photo…