We&re announcing a big addition to the Disrupt SF Agenda: Will Smith and director Ang Lee will be joining us to discuss their upcoming film &Gemini Man.They&ve both had long careers in the movie business — Lee titles include &Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,& &Brokeback Mountain& (which won him an Academy Award for Best Director) and &Life of Pi& (ditto).
And Smith, of course, has starred in countless box office hits, most recently &Aladdin,& while also delivering critically acclaimed performances in films like &Ali& and &Concussion.But they&re not resting on their laurels.&Gemini Man& features Smith in a dual role — he plays assassin Henry Brogan, as well as Junior, a younger clone who been sent to kill his older self — with&jaw-dropping& effects from Weta Digital.Although the details may differ, &Gemini Man& and Netflix new Martin Scorsese film &The Irishman&both point to a new cinematic world, where stars like Smith, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino can play themselves at any age — or perhaps be otherwise transformed — without relying on younger counterparts or resorting to heavy and unconvincing layers of makeup.We&ll talk to Lee and Smith about what it was like working with these effects, and how else they could change the way movies get made.
We&ll also ask about the future of the industry, Lee other experiments with cutting-edge technology and Smith startup investments through Dreamers Fund, which he created with Japanese athlete Keisuke Honda.Smith and Lee join an absolutely star-studded agenda that includes the likes of Marc Benioff, Evan Spiegel, Marillyn Hewson, Chris Dixon, Shan-Lyn Ma and Ashton Kutcher in his debut as a Battlefield Finals judge.Disrupt SF runs October 2 to October 4 at the Moscone Center in the heart of San Francisco.
Tickets are available here.This post has been updated to remove an inaccurate description of the effects in &The Irishman.