As the SAG-AFTRA strike approaches the two-month mark, much ink has been spilled about how the actors’ union has put pressure on studios to give them a better deal by withholding major stars from promoting films hitting theaters this summer. But a less discussed topic has been the issue of automated dialogue replacement or ADR.
When shooting wraps on live-action productions the actors’ job isn’t done. They are often called during postproduction to rerecord their lines for any scenes where production audio is too noisy to hear the dialogue.
Over the past month, films like Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter” and Warner Bros./Legendary’s