i certainly hope so. but we are not talking about lead actors here but extras. those are already being generated in scenes where hundreds or thousands of them are needed because such scenes would otherwise not even be possible. what scanning personalities will do is give movie makers a wider variety of extras to choose from without the extra cost. that's what they want and what the actors guild needs to fight.

i am not talking about speaking roles. we don't quite have the technology for those yet, but we are not that far either. we already have animated and computer generated 3d models of people that are getting more realistic by the day. just look at the final fantasy movies. they are still human controlled of course, but there are no more full actors. and the same is happening with voice actors too.

i fear this is where the industry is heading, and it's going to be hard to stop them.