A biopic about French music star Edith Piaf will be produced with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), Warner Music and the artist’s copyright heirs announced on Tuesday, AFP and Agerpres reported.

Edith Piaf in 1961Photo: Roger Viollet / AFP / Profimedia Images

The release date for this film, titled Edith, has not yet been set.

Sources close to Warner Music France told AFP the project is now “in the final stages of development” and is based on a series of images made for internal use.

The announcement of this “innovative and revolutionary technological project that uses artificial intelligence to recreate her voice and image,” as noted in a press release, comes in the context of the 60th anniversary of the “Non” singer’s death. in 2023, I don’t regret it.”

IN EdithArtificial intelligence technology, “learned from hundreds of voice excerpts and images, some dating back more than 80 years, will bring Piaf’s voice and image to life to enhance the authenticity and emotional impact of her story,” the release said.

“The recordings of Edith Piaf’s most famous songs will, of course, be used in their original versions,” the document says.

The film will tell almost the entire life of Edith Piaf

The 90-minute feature film, “set in Paris and New York between the 1920s and 1960s,” “will be told in Piaf’s voice and reveal previously unknown aspects of her life,” the statement said.

The French singer was born in 1915 and died in 1963.

Edith Piaf is not the first star to be recreated for a film after her death, but the announcement of an upcoming feature film about her suggests that she will be completely “revived” for the film’s lead role.

Previous feature films that have used CGI to recreate the likeness of beloved actors have usually done so through their deaths during filming or their brief appearances in new productions.

Edith Piaf, considered by many to be the greatest French singer of all time, died on October 10, 1963. His music remains a monument of French culture to this day.

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