Los Angeles, June 23 -- Hollywood veteran actor-director Tom Hanks has opened up about the future of the beloved Toy Story franchise, admitting that advances in artificial intelligence could one day allow Woody to live on without him.
The 69-year-old actor-filmmaker, who has lent his voice to Woody since the original "Toy Story" debuted in 1995, acknowledged, "Time is undefeated. The question would be whether or not we could cobble together some version of me. Every word we have ever recorded in time in Toy Story is on digital media somewhere, so they could put together anything they would want."Yet for Hanks, the more pressing concern is not technological capability but creative integrity. If there's another Toy Story, he just hopes that ...