(Via Nerdbastards) This seems fairly straightforward:
We don’t normally respond to fan or press speculation, but there is a rumor circulating that we would like to address. We want to assure our fans that Lucasfilm has no plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher’s performance as Princess or General Leia Organa.
Carrie Fisher was, is, and always will be a part of the Lucasfilm family. She was our princess, our general, and more importantly, our friend. We are still hurting from her loss. We cherish her memory and legacy as Princess Leia, and will always strive to honor everything she gave to Star Wars.
A little wriggle room there, but only a little. That’s forgivable. But I repeat something that I gingerly suggested before, but will undoubtedly be taken as heresy: if Leia Organa’s character really is as important to the series as people were saying that it was, perhaps Lucasfilm should consider the possibility of casting somebody else in the role. I’m not saying that they should actually cast somebody else, merely that the possibility should be at least considered, if a script with the Organa character still in it is superior to one where she is not.
I know that this is not a great solution, but we don’t actually have any great solutions.
Moe Lane
*Kept writing it as LucasArts. Heh.
Actors die, as is the fate of all men, but life goes on.
If thousands of men can play Hamlet, surely someone else can murble about the force to her pretend brother.
It is a peculiar mental disease of modern liberal (BIRM) Hollywood that they are all irreplaceable, or that doing so is an insult.
Stage actors generally don’t succumb to this, and neither for the most part do musicians.
F*ck them as vainglorious b*stards or hero-worshiping fools, any who suggest otherwise.
Hey, that’s a good point. Couldn’t they just put a note in the opening credits that says “In this production, the role of Leia will be played by Lena Dunham”?
In stage shows, they just add a note to the program.
Damn your eyes for infecting my brain with that thought.
So wait .. they’re *just peachy* about creating dead-Brit and one-time Doctor Who actor Peter Cushing .. but they won’t do Carrie Fisher .. even though they *already did* time-warp back to young Carrie Fisher for the end of Rogue One?
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That’s not a spoiler, is it? It’s been out a while now .. YOU SHOULD GO SEE IT.
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Anyway, point is .. this reads rather more like a “too soon to talk about”, to this cat .. not a straight-up “won’t”.. especially since it’s not like Disney couldn’t just do the same thing in-house.
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Mew
Given what we saw in Rogue One, I don’t feel like Hollywood’s ghola technology is really ready to use on a major character yet