Rogue One visual effects supervisor and executive producer John Knoll has expressed doubt this will happen due to the Star Wars movie needing to do that for specific story reasons, not to mention the whole process being “extremely labor intensive.”
The Tarkin creation has also prompted questions of if using digital reproductions of dead Hollywood actors might become more common with blockbusters.
Reception to Rogue One’s Tarkin has been mixed, with some moviegoers not even noticing the artificialness, while others have said it was still in uncanny valley territory.
The dim lighting aboard the Star Destroyers and Death Star certainly helped with making Tarkin look more realistic, which wasn’t the same case with their recreation of a young Leia Organa at the very end of Rogue One, as she was seen under bright lights in her brief appearance.
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