Credit where credit's due, though. It's a testimony to the improvements in facial motion capture that the uncanny valley effect is even worse in the still preview image than it is in the actual video, and it wasn't long ago that it was usually the opposite.

they still cant get around the 'actor wearing someone else's face' effect.

Right, but at least it finally doesn't look like the lipsync was done with a 3d Studio Max plugin from 1998.

She died after this was made, so moot point here.

Now Episode 9....hoo-boy

Kinda sounds like that movie 'The Congress', which kinda loosely adapted a Stanislaw Lem book of the same name: The girl from 'Princess Bride' (let's forget that Robin Wright Penn has remained a pretty A-listy actor over the past two decades) is a washed-up aging has-been and sells herself over to a digital format controlled by stupid movie execs, she has to watch herself sell herself out.

Disney is pretty serious about owning the likeness of anybody in their movies, a trick they learned from George Lucas. There will be CGI Robert Downey Jrs. until the copyright is rendered meaningless at some point in the mid-22nd century.

Yeah, she died 11 days after this came out, so there wasn't a ghoulishness about using it at the time

I'm in the camp that feels they should just recast the characters, if they must be in at all.

I would agree with the ranking, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

If you don’t notice how her mouth looks wider than it should be when she smiles then you need some glasses, old man!

Needs a "Disney Princess" tag.

Everyone I talked to who didn't know Peter Cushing was dead just thought Tarkin's scenes had weird lighting, which is pretty impressive. I definitely though Leia looked more off, but it wasn't too awful.

At lest your brain is given time to adjust to CGI Peter Cushing. They just kind of throw Leia in there, almost like they forgot about her.

THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE IS FORBIDDEN AND THE JEDI COUNCIL HAS DECLARED ANY APPRENTICE MEDDLING IN FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE A HERETIC TO BE JUDGED BY THE OUTCOME OF TRIAL BY KAL-IF-FEE.

In all seriousness though, how hard would it have been to simple use the names of Jan Ors (Jyn Ersu is already really close) and Kyle Katarn. They already have written back in other EU characters (Thrawn) in canon material.

All I could figure was that a female Asian lead didn't focus group well enough for the new demographics.

The villain of Rogue One was clearly Thrawn in the first draft. There's no other excuse.

Still. Would.