Disney brought back Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It was the worst technological decision in Star Wars since Jar Jar Binks. Worst of all, the inclusion of Grand ...

Disney has a legal challenge to contend with after using CGI to revive a dead actor in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The 2016 Star Wars film features the likeness of actor Peter Cushing, who plays ...

Film producer Kevin Francis is suing Lucasfilm (and, by proxy, Disney) over the reproduction of Peter Cushing’s image in Star Wars: A Rogue One Story. In the film, the deceased actor was digitally ...

Eight years ago, Peter Cushing was digitally resurrected to appear in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Grand Moff Tarkin, which has now prompted a lawsuit against Disney. The lawsuit has been filed by ...

Things just got more complicated for The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm. This week, the legal saga over the digital “resurrection” of Peter Cushing, who was recreated via CGI as Grand Moff Tarkin ...

2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” featured the return of the memorable Grand Moff Tarkin, who was played by the late Peter Cushing in the original “A New Hope.” Although Cushing died in 1994, ...