In brief: The ability to recreate the likeness of dead celebrities was always going to be a contentious area. Unsurprisingly, a company is going to trial over the technology being used to add a ...

Here are the details of the case. Kevin Francis, an old friend of Peter Cushing, claims to have a signed agreement from Cushing in which “the actor agreed not to grant permission for anyone to ...

According to the legal team representing Tyburn, Cushing made the deal with them due to a situation with a TV movie that Cushing was going to do with the studio until the project fell apart. Tyburn’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm is being sued over its recreation of Grand Moff Tarkin actor Peter Cushing's image in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As reported by The Times, a friend of Cushing has ...

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 ...

Rouge One: A Star Wars Story is one of the better-received projects in the Disney era. In an effort to connect to the original trilogy, it featured the return of Grand Moff Tarkin, originally ...

The issue of recreating the likenesses of dead actors is certainly one that is on the minds of many in the entertainment industry. In the most recent Alien: Romulus movie, for instance, the digital ...