Returning to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, it’s interesting that Peter Cushing isn’t credited on the Internet Movie Database, nor the presumed body double used to stand in for the shots. Williams, as with Ari Folman’s The Congress, clearly saw Hollywood’s direction. So where do we draw the line? It was reported last year that the late actor Robin Williams had passed on rights to his name, signature, photograph and likeness to a trust protecting the use of his image until 2039. Where science and alchemy have failed, Hollywood is creating its own philosopher’s stone. Mike McGee, CCO and co-founder of Framestore, says: “Many young and old actors today are having their heads and bodies digitally scanned to future-proof their image, to allow future technologies to recreate them.”īut such technological marvels can feel unnerving, as if they’ve been plucked from a dystopian novel. The same techniques have been deployed for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley concerts, where audiences enjoy the macabre spectacle of the dead performing again.įramestore, the VFX company that has provided visual effects for Arrival, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast were also behind the Galaxy chocolate TV advert set on the Amalfi coast that brought a 19-year-old Audrey Hepburn back to the screen They used FACS (facial action coding system) and body doubles. At California’s Coachella festival in 2012, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg were joined on stage by Tupac Shakur, 16 years after the actor was shot dead in Las Vegas, thanks to holographic technology. Musicians have been raised from the grave, too. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Superimposed star … Brandon Lee in The Crow. More recently, there’s been a trend of actors being given digital facelifts to restore them to their younger selves, as was the case for Robert Downey Jr in Captain America: Civil War and Anthony Hopkins in Westworld. Both were remarkably effective, with audiences barely aware of the digital trickery. After Oliver Reed died in the middle of shooting Gladiator, Ridley Scott similarly used digital renderings of the actor’s face to complete the missing scenes. The film was completed by digitally lifting Lee from previously captured footage and superimposing it on later scenes. Brandon Lee was tragically shot while filming Alex Proyas’s goth classic The Crow. ![]() This isn’t the first time that the dead have graced the silver screen. When the effects can be so spookily lifelike, you start to wonder … can you copyright and package an actor after death? It would seem so. Then come the questions about this necromantic cinematic feat and what it means for the industry. Since the start of cinema, its technical magic has always made us gasp, and seeing Cushing interacting, near seamlessly, with new characters brings a smile to the face. ![]() How the trick was pulled off remains a mystery as the wizards at Lucas Film and Disney remaining tight-lipped about their achievement. The effect is remarkable, if uncanny, and the technology is breathtaking. The news that Cushing would feature in Rogue One broke last year, with sources reporting that it would be “one of the most complex and costly CGI re-creations ever.” Since the release of the film, critics have noted how remarkable yet slightly creepythe digital resurrection of Cushing is. The lists include cast members of feature films, television series and television films.With the aid of advanced CGI, a walking, talking Cushing once again reprises his role as the sneering Imperial Officer Grand Moff Tarkin from the 1977 original Star Wars: A New Hope, even though the actor has been dead for more than 20 years. Lists of Star Wars cast members cover cast members of productions by Star Wars, an American media franchise centered on a series of science fiction films.
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