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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...