Lee also pushed for Will Smith’s clone, Junior, to be an entirely CG character. He’s not just de-aged like Samuel L. Jackson in Captain Marvel — he’s built completely from the ground up by Weta Digital to recapture Smith in his youth. So, in a way, Junior is more closely related to Gollum from Lord of the Rings than an actual human who’s had a bit of computer-assisted wrinkle reduction. His performance is motion captured by Will Smith and stuntmen, and his face his painstakingly recreated by Weta. This allows Junior to both move like a younger man, but also tap into Will Smith’s talents for his facial movements.

“The man gave peace of his heart,” Lee said. “He actually has to act harder than his usual job. No, ten times harder. If you’d like to talk about hard, Junior has it hard, a lot more than a real person. The investment we put into it to try to make believe that was a hundred times harder than just directing an actor or movie star.”

Lee doesn’t seem too concerned about actors just becoming digital characters that we can easily manipulate in the future, like the film The Congress. “But anything can happen,” he says. Junior isn’t a perfect digital facsimile of young Will Smith — at times, you can easily tell that the facial rendering feels a bit off — but he’s a big step towards seeing completely digital actors in more films.

No matter how Gemini Man ends up being received — it currently sits at 24 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and has grossed just $20.6 million in its first weekend — Lee still plans to continue chipping away at the possibilities of digital cinema.

“Digital is more attractive to me now because it’s harder,” he said. “I’m curious, I have so many questions… It’s not like I’m like 36 or something. I’m in a hurry to find some answers to those questions. And it seems like every answer I get, then 10 questions open up.”

Canon has dubbed the G7 X III “the next-generation vlogging camera,” and it appears to have the specs to back that up. It packs a 4.2 times optical lens (24-100 mm f/1.8-2.8 in a 35mm equivalent), with built-in optical image stabilization, for one thing. You also get a 3-inch rear touchscreen that can tilt up 180 degrees for vloggers or selfie takers. To ensure top audio quality, it even has a built-in microphone input, though no headphone jack.

On the video side, you can shoot 4K video at 30 fps with no cropping, a feature even the $2,300 EOS R can’t boast. For slow-mo, it can shoot 120 fps at 1080p. Perhaps most impressively, the G7 X III lets you stream directly to YouTube over WiFi. With all those things taken into account, along with the G7 X III’s small, lightweight form factor, you should have a top-notch, inexpensive YouTuber camera.

What’s that you say? You’re on Instagram? Well, no sweat there, either. Thanks to a built-in gyro, you can shoot vertical video, and the G7 X III will log that into the clip’s metadata so you can easily add it to an Instagram story. To drive home the point that Canon is targeting influencers with this camera, it’s launching it at the Vidcon 2019 vlogger-oriented convention.

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Where the G7 X III targets vloggers, the G5 X II (above) is aimed at photographers. It packs roughly the same design and video/photo specs, but has an impressive 24-120mm equivalent f/1.8-2.8 zoom lens and a pop-up OLED electronic viewfinder. The body is much smaller than the G5X and, dare I saw, far prettier than its gawky predecessor.

The G7 X III will cost $749 and come in silver or black, while the G5 X II is $899 in black only. Both cameras will be available starting next month.