Film
Case study example | RoboCop and the estate of Francis Bacon
Bacon’s artistic style, known for its distorted and emotionally charged imagery, was used as the “underlying visual metaphor” for the reboot of RoboCop in 2014.
Bacon’s ‘Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus’, 1981 can be seen here in front of the film’s main antagonist, Raymond Sellars, played by Michael Keaton.
We worked with the production designer Martin Whist to licence Francis Bacon’s work for the 2014 film.
DACS set up a licensing agreement between the production for RoboCop and the estate of artist Francis Bacon.
Other use cases for artwork licensing in the film sector
These include:
- premieres and events
- marketing and promotional material
- merchandising