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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:27AM (#458368)

    They didn't need to show a close-up of Carrie. There would be less risk if they had shown her from a bit of a distance.

    But knowing it's (partial) CGI probably made people pay more attention than they would have otherwise. You start focusing on realism or lack of if you know, and the power of suggestion can play with your mind.

    It's like pointing out somebody is (allegedly) a cross-dresser: you start to notice things you didn't notice before, or at least become more conscience of certain things.

    That's not necessarily the fault of the CGI crew, just a side-effect of the attention from using CGI to recreate actors who have passed away.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @03:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @03:59AM (#458385)

    My hobby: saying that random women are cross-dressers.

  • (Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday January 25 2017, @07:28AM

    by Username (4557) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @07:28AM (#458407)

    They didn't need to show a close-up of Carrie. There would be less risk if they had shown her from a bit of a distance.

    They didn’t spend a fuckton of money on CGI not to use it.