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10 Queen Mary J. Intell. Prop. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/qmjip10 and id is 1 raw text is: Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 1-6 Where have you been? CGI film stars and reanimation horrors ... In a moment of fantastic whim I whispered questions to the reddening ears; questions of other worlds of which the memory might still be present. Subsequent terror drove them from my mind, but I think the last one, which I repeated, was: 'Where have you been?' HP Lovecraft, 'Herbert West - Reanimator' Cal Trask: Hey Aron, why don't you ask me where I've been? Aron Trask: Would you tell me? Cal Trask: No. East of Eden (1955), directed by Elia Kazan, starring James Dean (Cal Trask) and Richard Davalos (Aron Trask) In late 2019, cinephiles reacted to the news that James Dean would be starring in a new film, an adaptation of Gareth Crocker's 2013 novel, Finding Jack, the story of hun- dreds of canine units left behind at the end of the Vietnam War. But of course, James Dean died in a car accident on 30 September 1955, almost a decade before US troops entered Vietnam. How then is he cast in a new film? The fascination for me is less about whether this film should or even can be made, and more to do with the insight this whole episode provides into wider social and legal perspectives on the performer and the art of performance. Today, some 64 years later, the reanimation of James Dean has been promised by directors Anton Ernst' and Tati Golykh2 in their announcement of Finding Jack, to be released through their production company, Magic City Films. Notably, their director credits are scant (although Ernst was a producer of Little One, the South African offi- cial submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academic Awards, 2013). In fact, Finding Jack, will be the feature directorial debut for both Ernst and Golykh. However, even their short films have not yet been released, so as far as audiences are concerned, neither has as yet released a film as director. The first scheduled release, a short film co-directed by Ernst and Golykh entitled Three Stops, is currently in post-production. The international press surrounding the announcement of James Dean's casting is out of all proportion to the modest profile of the film's team. However, the production team adds some experience with the inclusion of Donald A Barton,3 but even his work has been somewhat stalled for the last four years. Curiously, one of his production efforts, a reanimation horror entitled Re-Generator,4 suffered such production delays 1. <https://www.imdb.com/name/nml132222/>. 2. <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9l32715/>. 3. <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1247737/>. 4. Re-Generator (2010), Olivier Gruner and Patrick Shanavian (directors), One Night Production. © 2020 The Author Journal compilation © 2020 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Lypiatts, 15 Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2JA, UK and The William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court, Northampton MA 01060-3815, USA

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