Star Wars News
BBC Newsnight aired last night with a piece about CG characters in movies, including a decent bit about those appearing in Rogue One. In the program, it is revealed that Disney is already in talks with the estate of Carrie Fisher about her continued presence in the Star Wars franchise.
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They should include a touching funeral in the movie.
I think it would be hard not to do something. Her filming was completed for 8, but then she would disappear for 9 unless they just write her out completely, which I don't see happening.
Having watched Rogue One just 2 days after her death, the movie was so much more emotional at the end than it ever should have been. In some ways I think Rogue One accidently and unintentionally gave her a fitting tribute that left a lump in the throat and I would be surprised if they could have written a touching tribute any better than one that was never even meant to be a tribute, as she was still alive at filming of it.
That aside, expect to see CGI characters of dead actors a lot in the next few years. Apparently Hollywood has been 3D scanning big names stars for the past 3 or 4 years now in the event of one of them dying mid-filming. Apparently it is part of their contracts with major leading studios that in the event of their death the studio can digitally recreate them without permission for whatever project within that franchise they wish. I think it really started to become a contract clause when Paul Walker died before filming on the Fast/Furious film ended and studios realised they needed to expand their rights to an actor after death.
The only reason they had to ask Cushing's estate (and possibly Fishers) about doing it, is because he died long before the technology and the contracts were ever created and I would suspect that Fisher may have not signed a contract agreeing to it when she first signed to do 3 more movies. But a lot of actors are now finding clauses in their contracts allowing studios to carry on filming with a CGI version of the actor in the event of their death using 3D body scans taken pre-production.
And as time goes on and it becomes the standard in contracts, you are going to find that a controversy will start to brew over whether a studio should be allowed to put an actors image to a controversial storyline they (or their family) would not have agreed with doing, and legally allowed to do it because they have a legal contract that allows them to. Could we be seeing a wholesome and clean cut actor that always took morally positive movie roles, pass away and then be digitally created to be a child-killer in a movie they never knew about or would ever agree to have partaken in, just because their contract they signed allowed the use of their image long after death?
The only exception to it is Robin Williams, who apparently took out a clause that forbids any studio from using a digitally created image of him for any movie project, anytime within the first 25 years of his death. So don't expect to ever see a CGI version of Williams before the year 2042.
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