While Carrie Fisher said that she approved of her alter-ego’s cameo before she passed away, certainly Peter Cushing had absolutely no idea that such things would be possible when he passed away in 1994.
Both Peter Cushing’s Moff Tarkin and a young Princess Leia appear in the film, both played by entirely different actors.
Now, a new story in The Hollywood Reporter focuses on the idea that actors need to be considering how they want their likeness used in situations like this after they have passed away.
While Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will go down in movie history as the film that showed that spinoff films in the franchise would be successful, its much further reaching impact may be in the way that the film advanced the technology of creating CGI humans on film.