This is what she looked like in the first film.
Posted on 01/13/2017 9:18:54 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kirsty Wark said on the BBC show[Newsnight]: "With what might be regarded as unseemly haste, Disney is negotiating with the actor’s estate over her continued appearance in the franchise. If Disney gets the go-ahead, Carrie Fisher will join Peter Cushing, who, last month, 15 years after his death, played a key role in Rogue One as Grand Moff Tarkin."
There was no more detail on what exactly Disney is negotiating with the estate: the studio may want to continue using Fisher's likeness on merchandise, or, as with Cushing, want to bring Leia back for Star Wars: Espiode IX, which is due for release in 2018.
As Newsnight pointed out, however, such technological advances come with their own ethical questions: just because late actors can be brought back to popular franchises, it doesn't mean that they should. There was no more detail on what exactly Disney is negotiating with the estate: the studio may want to continue using Fisher's likeness on merchandise, or, as with Cushing, want to bring Leia back for Star Wars: Espiode IX, which is due for release in 2018.
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Carrie Fisher did a self biography show in 2010, the video of which was recently aired again after her death. In that show, she lamented that George Lucas owned all rights to her likeness, and she could do nothing about it as it was in the contracts. She joked about seeing her likeness everywhere in commercial products, and that as she aged the inevitable comparisons were thrown in her face. She accepted the changes in her appearance as she aged, but some fans were downright mean regarding her no longer appearing young and thin.
It could be that Disney only owned her likeness on existing material while Carrie was alive, and not on new material upon her death.
The image they had of her in the last film did not look much like her. Hope they find someone who can draw better.
Now, now. We all get older....
“Remember the dead and buried John Wayne selling Coors Beer?”
Here he is scaring the crap out of R. Lee Ermey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwdcsPqS1x0
Older is fine, it was the weird looking face job that threw me. You would think they would have better technique in the Star Wars setting. Or just correct it with cgi.
Freegards
It was that very commercial that caused me to realize that nothing on film could ever again be trusted. With the vast improvements in CGI since then unless I see it myself with my own lying eyes I will not believe it.
What did it for me was Jurassic Park. I knew it was CGI, but damn!
They must not have put any effort into that, I know they can do much better.
The tech is still in its infancy. Give it a few years and you won't be able to tell the difference.
Interesting technology at play here. Lots of strange ways this could play out.
They recreated Peter Cushing for his Grand Moff Tarkin role and he's been dead for over 20 years. As the technology progresses, many families might find new value in licensing the digital recreations of their dead relative movie stars. Posthumous digital renderings may become a part of the contract that living actors sign.
And why stop with dead actors? Living actors may find it's easier to license their digital likenesses as opposed to actually going out and act. The possibilities are endless. Old and over the hill 70-something? No problem! Just license the good-looking 22-year old digital recreations of yourself that made you famous in the first place.
This tech is going to be groundbreaking. Of course it's Lucasfilm behind it.
Oooh! Oooh! Lemme guess!
The Price Tag.
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