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Peter Cushing to be Digitally Recreated for Star Wars: Rogue One

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 27 2015, @08:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the will-they-screw-it-up-again dept.

takyon writes:

Disney and LucasFilms will reportedly use computer generated imagery to digitally recreate Grand Moff Tarkin, the character Peter Cushing played in Star Wars back in 1977. Cushing died at age 81 in 1994:

A source told the Daily Mail that Disney and LucasFilms are using CGI to bring Grand Moff Tarkin back to life for the spin-off film which is centred on a back story about Darth Vader.

Cushing starred in many of the Hammer Horror films with Christopher Lee, including Dracula and Dr Frankenstein. He also appeared in two Doctor Who films, based on the BBC sci-fi series.

CGI technicians have been particularly challenged in recreating his legs and feet, because they never appeared on camera in the original film. As his character was a Galactic Imperial officer, his uniform included tight riding boots, which Cushing complained were uncomfortable. So director George Lucas gave him permission to wear slippers and instructed the camera operators to only film him from above the knees. Original footage is vital in the process of computer generating real people, to ensure that it appears as accurate as possible.

With the power of CGI, Tarkin/Cushing can be made to leap over railings, dodge blaster fire in mid-air, and high five Jar Jar Binks.

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  • (Score: 2) by f4r on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:50PM

    by f4r (4515) on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:50PM (#228771)
    If his feet never appeared on camera, couldn't they just use someone with a similar build/body shape, and model generic feet from that? Since his feet never appeared on camera, there is no canon foot to dispute anyway, right?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @12:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @12:15AM (#228791)

    Hell use one of the other movies he was in... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001088 [imdb.com] Or one of the thousands of publicity shots he probably did for those same movies....

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 28 2015, @12:29AM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday August 28 2015, @12:29AM (#228794)

      Yes, but how would those feet look when squashed into tight riding boots?

      I mean, if you're a minion of a pawn in a cast of tens of thousands of technicians assigned to a portion of a detail, what else do you have to justify your name in the credits roll if you aren't going for the absolute epitome of trivia inspiring detail?

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      • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday August 28 2015, @03:56AM

        by krishnoid (1156) on Friday August 28 2015, @03:56AM (#228841)

        This is *Star Wars*, people. They'll just have to exhume him.