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?
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Tuesday January 24 2017, @08:44PM
I most definitely did not think it was CGI.
Wow... just wow. Whereas I was shocked at just how bad it was... that i immediately knew it was CGI, and that it looked completely wrong. Like someone had animated an air brushed a corpse of someone who didn't quite look like Leia.
So long as they get permission from her family
Be interesting to see the screen actors guilds take on it. Not sure they'd want to devalue living working actors to just be standins for long dead ones. And as soon as this is mainstream, it won't be the permission from the family... Disney will just buy and own the rights to actors likenesses from the families estates. And then hoard them forever. Maybe then a studio goes bankrupt and a porn company picks up the likeness rights... or why wait... they'll just get dumb drunk girls to sell them for a free t-shirt, thong and the promise of fame.