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Dean’s new role

He may have died in 1955 — but you haven’t seen the last film featuring James Dean.

In a creepy turn, the Hollywood icon will be digitally reincarnated to appear in the action film “Finding Jack,” in which he’ll play a secondary character named Rogan, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Magic City Films will use computer-generated imagery to resurrect Dean, who was killed in a car crash at the age of 24, by way of “full body” re-creations from archival photos and footage.

Dean’s voice in the movie will be performed by an actor who has not yet been named, the publication said.

Magic City, a new production company founded by Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, received a thumbs-up from Dean’s family.

“We feel very honored that his family supports us and will take every precaution to ensure that his legacy as one of the most epic film stars to date is kept firmly intact,” Ernst told The Hollywood reporter. “The family views this as his fourth movie, a movie he never got to make. We do not intend to let his fans down.”

Based on Gareth Crocker’s novel of the same title, “Finding Jack” tells the story of efforts to rescue thousands of Army dogs that were classified by the US government as “surplus military equipment” and abandoned overseas at the end of the Vietnam War. Production is set to start Nov. 17 for release on Veterans Day in 2020.

“We searched high and low for the perfect character to portray the role of Rogan, which has some extreme complex character arcs, and after months of research, we decided on James Dean,” Ernst said of the decision to revive the actor.

Dean appeared in “East of Eden,” “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant,” the latter released a year after his death.

CGI has been used to bring other late actors to the screen. The digital image of Peter Cushing, who died in 1994, was used to reprise his “Star Wars” role of Grand Moff Tarkin in the space epic’s “Rogue One” sequel in 2016.