A viral deepfake features Keanu Reeves as John Wick inserted into a scene from the second season of Separation. The edit uses a powerful AI system to map Reeves’s likeness onto the moment while the actor who originally appears keeps his expressive cues, creating a seamless blend that many viewers find striking.
The clip spread across social networks, with a single post on X amassing around 16 million views. The Hunyuan Video neural network reproduced Reeves’s appearance with remarkable fidelity and preserved Adam Scott’s facial expressions, illustrating how far rendering technology has come in North American audiences’ feeds.
There are already thousands of comments online, and not every reaction is celebratory. There is a growing concern about the speed of AI advancement and questions about how such tools will reshape storytelling, casting, and the business side of cinema in North America.
Great, let’s fix the Lord of the Rings series that Amazon ruined. — citation: martin_0x029A
Soon we won’t have any movie stars anymore. Only characters with artificial intelligence. — citation: GMERectheus
It’s amazing how what once required hundreds of people and months to achieve now can be done in minutes with modern AI, as seen in scenes from popular franchises like Furious 7. — citation: TahsinAmio
Wow, AI that actually looks convincing. The future of on screen realism is here, prompting both awe and caution.
“This is me in 2028 because someone made an AI video of me committing a crime.” — citation: social media user
The second season of The Separation has begun its run with a January 17 premiere. Readers were pointed to early impressions of the opening episode as part of ongoing North American coverage of AI in film and television.
The discussion also touches on broader AI trends, including lifelike androids and robotic figures that can remind audiences of real people, raising questions about audience perception and the line between imagination and imitation.