Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Yes, those are real actors, not CGI recreations of dead people who couldn't sign off on appearing in a movie.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

You just phrased it poorly. A character being digitally recreated isn't nearly the same as an actor reprising the role.


No, but what does that matter? No actor is dead when they film a movie. Cushing isn't reprising the role because he is dead, and dead actors can't reprise a role.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

If continuity is so important, why don't they just use the guy who did the cameo in Episode III?

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

I phrased it the way I phrased it, knowing full well the difference.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

It matters because Peter Cushing didn't choose to do the project, like he did when he was alive. Even if it's great, he should still have the choice. What if he never wanted to be in a Star Wars movie again?

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Yep, let's not forget that actors are people and for them, acting is a job. They are not ours to do what we please with their likeness. It would be like if one of us died and our employer decided to go ahead and use our corpse to make some money.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Well technically Cushing isn't in another Star Wars and never will be. Tarkin =/= Cushing

Using a person's likeness is not nearly the same as digging up a dead rotting corpse.

Like I said above, Tarkin is not Cushing. Tarkin is a property of Disney. They could do whatever they want with Tarkin. They own the character. They could not force Cushing to reprise the role (assuming he was still alive) but they are still within their rights to use Tarkin as a CGI character.

Anyway, this is all just a rumor anyway. At least I don't think it was confirmed in that article. I read through it again, and it doesn't seem like anything official, and I haven't read about it in any other article. It's from the dailymail website too... Isn't that site notorious for making shit up? As someone earlier said, it makes more sense just to recast the role (like they did with Episode III) than to spend a lot of extra money making him CGI.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

They own the character, but not Cushing's likeness. Many celebrities have won lawsuits against parties that used their likeness without permission. This is why cartoon adaptations of movies often feature characters that look like nothing like the actors that played them. If Disney wants to use Cushing's likeness they'll have to get permission from his estate. Even if the estate approves, I find the concept to be tacky and morbid, and it will take me out of the movie to see a CGI Cushing.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Exactly; Crispin Glover won a big lawsuit against Universal for such shenanigans in Back to the Future II. It's also somewhat well known by Trek fans that the estate of the actor who played Mudd doesn't like his likeness being used for anything new; when they did the Batman '66 comic they had to change an entire character because that actor was in the original series.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Anyway, I think this is all just a rumor. Isn't that what the dailymail is? A gossip site full of bullshit rumors they make up?

I doubt it is true for several reasons.

One is the potential lawsuit.

Second is Disney has said they want to use more practical effects and less CGI for their movies. This rumor flies completely opposite of that.

Third is that they are certainly not against recasting the role since they have already done so in the prequel trilogy.

Fourth is what point would having a CGI Tarkin look like Cushing serve when Cushing cannot provide the voice anyway. Unless they just reuse old lines from Cushing.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

I'm sure you could find someone to do a Peter Cushing voice impersonation.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

How were they able to use Marlon Brando in Superman Returns. I know that was old footage but was there some clause in his contract that allowed whatever footage they had to be used in future movies?

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

a phone call to the dead actors "estate" and a big enough bag of cash and I'm sure i could make a CGI movie of General Tarkan tossing my salad.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Well there is that one guy. Studio tried to cover it up saying it was a bird.....

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

This kind of tech doesn't age well so I'd rather they just stay away from cgi characters entirely.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

I am actually open to them having Tarkin in the movie. Cushing shot a lot of movies in his time, so i am sure they have enough material to make a really greast CGI likeness. The character seems a pretty essential role for the movie given the plot. And after seeing the skill that was used to de-age Michael Douglas in Ant-man i am actually a little more optimistic than usual. It seems its come a long way since the weird versions of Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy and Mckellan/Stewart in Last Stand.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

As someone already stated... I don't get why they wouldn't just cast Wayne Pygram, who played Tarkin in RoTS.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...ung_Tarkin.jpg

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Early CGI hasn't aged well, but I feel modern CGI is significantly better and won't age as poorly. For example, Gollum in Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy still looks very good today and that was done 14 years ago.

It's kind of like video games in that regard. Early 3D graphics from the PS1/N64 era of video games has aged very very very poorly. The graphics in those games is just painful to look at today. However, while more modern 3D graphics in say the PS2/Xbox era had aged, they haven't aged nearly as a poorly as the PS1/N64 era.

It's like as technology matures it ages less poorly than the same technology when it was in its infancy. If that makes any sense. I guess as we approach the point of diminishing returns, the improvements aren't as great, but also since the difference isn't as great the old doesn't appear to noticeably age as much either.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Mikkelsen was quoted as saying that part of the filming will take place in Iceland. Hoth?

Also, Donnie Yen posted this on Instagram:

http://www.starwars7news.com/wp-cont...er-Helmets.jpg

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

I hope not. There are more than six planets in the SW universe.

Re: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One (12/16/16, D: Gareth Edwards) S: Felicity Jones
 

Re: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16, D: Edwards) S: Jones, Luna, Mendelsohn, Y
 

Filming has begun.

Some pics:

Re: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16, D: Edwards) S: Jones, Luna, Mendelsohn, Y
 

Can anyone explain that third pic? Is that sand or water?

Anyway, it's pretty amazing to think that there are currently two Star Wars films being filmed at the same time, Ep. VIII and this Rogue 1 thing. That's never happened before.

Re: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16, D: Edwards) S: Jones, Luna, Mendelsohn, Y