Saturday, December 31, 2016

How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces #SciFiSunday #NationalScienceFictionDay

01ROGUE1 superJumbo v4

From The New York Times:

Warning: This article contains spoilers about “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”

Making a new “Star Wars” movie can be like gaining access to a toy collection that has been amassed over four decades. For the creators of “Rogue One,” a film designed as a narrative lead-in to the original “Star Wars,” it was a chance to play with characters, vehicles and locations sacred to this series.

But as they revisited the 1977 George Lucas movie that started the “Star Wars” franchise, and gave fresh screen time to some lesser-known heroes and villains, the staffs of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic faced artistic and technological hurdles: most prominently, using a combination of live action and digital effects to bring back the character Grand Moff Tarkin. This nefarious ally of Darth Vader and commander of the Death Star was played by Peter Cushing, the horror-film actor, who died in 1994.

Read more.

No comments:

Post a Comment