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Disney to Stop Using CGI for Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia Organa

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the contains-no-artificial-organas dept.

edIII writes:

Disney has issued a statement regarding the rumors of CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) being used to continue Carrie Fisher's roles in any upcoming movies:

We want to assure our fans that Lucasfilm has no plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher's performance as Princess or General Leia Organa.

Of course that would be after they already recreated her as young Princess Leia in Rogue One. I'm kinda torn because I found nothing funnier than her CGI face in that movie. Moff Tarkin was done quite well, but Leia looked like she had several strong psychedelic edibles and a glorious bowel movement just 2 minutes before.

Assuming that they could do it better, who is for recreating our favorite characters with CGI?

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  • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:21PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:21PM (#458155) Homepage Journal

    although it would eventually open up movie and TV making to nearly everyone as costs drop over time.

    I can remember standing in a Babbage's software store in the mall in the 1980s hoping that someday my children or grandchildren could make Star Wars episodes I-III and episodes VII-IX using computer generated imagery and voices that would look just like the original actors. I was hoping this would be something that people could literally do at home just for fun. We may be heading for a world like that.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:50PM (#458169)

    I can remember standing in a Babbage's software store in the mall in the 1980s hoping that someday my children or grandchildren could make Star Wars episodes I-III and episodes VII-IX using computer generated imagery and voices that would look just like the original actors. I was hoping this would be something that people could literally do at home just for fun. We may be heading for a world like that.

    No, we aren't. From the technical possibilities, we might reach that stage. But the copyright industry will make sure that the laws against this are in full force, and probably all creation software will come with automatic filters which disallow creating anything that builds on the old works, including quite a few things that are not actually infringing, but are misidentified by the software as such. Circumventing those measures will be a crime, even if you do it for creation of non-infringing stuff.

  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:54PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:54PM (#458173)
    ah Babbage's. I spent many hours there as a kid "window shopping".