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In the 1999 book The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime by R. A. Salvatore, Han Solo’s faithful Wookiee partner, Rebel Alliance ...
Disney and Lucasfilm have a new lawsuit headed their way, over their use of late actor Peter Cushing’s image in the Star Wars spinoff film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, back in 2016. According ...
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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.
The makers of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story are being sued over the image rights of actor Peter Cushing, whose image was resurrected for the 2016 film. Cushing, who passed away in 1994 from cancer ...
How Disney Added Peter Cushing to Rogue One Rogue One was set right before the first Star Wars movie but came out 39 years later, so any actors who appeared in both needed to be digitally de-aged ...
In 2019, Tyburn Film Productions - which is run by one of Cushing's oldest friends, Kevin Francis - claimed that the company had entered into an agreement with the actor prior to his death, which ...
Rumor: Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin To Be Digitally Recreated For Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The late, great Peter Cushing, who played primary antagonist Grand Moff Tarkin in 1977’s ...
Additionally, Disney paid around £28,000 to Cushing’s estate for the use of his image in Rogue One. As such, Disney notes there is no “unjust enrichment” at hand.