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Remember that time they used CG to bring back Peter Cushing in Rogue One? Remember how bad it looked? Remember how disrespectful it was? Maybe we shouldn't do it again.
"Learn? From our moments of failure? I think you overestimate our audience!"
Technology improves. It won’t always look that bad.
As I recall his family was on board with the choice. It didn’t seem disrespectful to me, I was excited to see the character Tarkin show up when I hadn’t expected him to.
Ah yes, as the old adage says, “If at first you don’t succeed, never try again.”
I don't think "if at first you don't succeed" applies here. Like, I'm annoyed they tried once. I think a more applicable adage is "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
With Disney capital to pay for high-end technology that looked amazing, we found the result was passable at best. Peter Cushing's estate, run by his former secretary, said it was okay, but the overwhelming response from audiences was that it was disrespectful.
We know we couldn't, and we know we shouldn't. So let's not.
I heard they did it again in the new Alien movie.
Did you know they did the same with Leia? Looked quite indistinguishable.
But yeah, a bit of a gray territory to still use one's image and voice after the passing, with people who might not have properly understood you can almost literally resurrect them back into media.
Oh, I know. And I double checked wikipedia to see what the critical response was. Carrie Fisher liked how it looked. Reviewers said it was "weird and unsettling", "particularly plastic" or "distractingly artificial."