Meet Julian Bass, the Social Media VFX Star Who Has Won Over Hollywood: 'The World’s Gonna Know Your Name!'

Disney chief Bob Iger, Oscar-winner Matthew Cherry, James Gunn and Josh Gad are amongst the big names in awe of the 20-year-old Georgia State University student's self-made special effects videos

By late Thursday night, the video had been viewed 10 million times, retweeted 300,000 times, liked over 650,000 times and inspired a fledgling fan campaign for Bass to become the star of a Miles Morales-frontedPretty quickly, helped immeasurably by mass tagging on Twitter, the video had also caught the eye of some of the biggest names in Hollywood with replies and retweets from the likes of Oscar-winner Matthew Cherry, voice actor Tara Strong.

More than retweets, the official Lonely Island twitter account said it had forwarded the video to Disney and VFX giant Industrial Light & Magic, actor Zach Braff urged Gunn to "hire this man," and yes, the video, eventually, caught the notice of Disney executive chairman Bob Iger himself, who replied, "The world’s gonna know your name!" over direct message late on Thursday. "I absolutely had no idea it'd get this big.

"It's insane. No other way to put it," Bass says of reaction to the video and the outpouring of enthusiasm for his work.

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