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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 DannyB on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:06PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:06PM (#458288) Journal

    I think this idea could be extended from completely virtual actors to develop virtual audiences as well.

    On a different note. In the mid 80's there was a movie called "Looker". It was a (for then and now) slightly futuristic world where actors could be computer simulations. Of course, they thought you would still need physical backgrounds like sets, furniture, etc which we know are easier to simulate than humans. (Spoilers . . .) The company behind this starts killing off all beautiful actresses (but not hot dude actors?) to increase demand for the company's services. They also develop a technology that embeds a signal in the visual image to hypnotize the viewers. The good guys discover that a politician is using this to get everyone to vote for him. (Yes, really) Of course, the good guys win and the evil plan is exposed.

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