RUMOR MILL: CASSIAN ANDOR Will Feature An Appearance From Iconic STAR WARS Baddie Grand Moff Tarkin

I mean, i could tell he was cg, obviously, but pretty much all of friends though i was lying when i told them. So i guess most people were fooled and it did the trick.

Maybe... don't?!

"both Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher had passed away by this point"

An inaccurate statement. Carrie Fisher was very much alive when this movie was made and did not pass away until a couple of weeks after it was released.

"It's hard to believe an actor like Cushing would be happy with the way he was recreated on screen with a mixture of VFX and stand-in Guy Henry"

An assumption based on what? Carrie Fisher saw the Leia scene before she died and supposedly had no problem with it, so there's no reason to believe Cushing would have had a problem. There's no reason to believe he would have liked it either, of course, but because there's no reason to believe either way, the above statement seems very presumptuous.

A quote from Gareth Edwards about Carrie Fisher's reaction to the Leia scene -

"We had about two weeks left, and Kathy went around her house and everyone was waiting to hear. [Kathy] said she showed it to her and [Carrie] thought it was footage. She didn’t realize it was CGI. She thought we had some footage. She didn’t remember the take and thought we had manipulated a take from the original film. But they told her it was all computer generated and she was really impressed. We were all just so pleased she approved it."

A quick Google search of "carrie fisher rogue one reaction" will show a bunch of websites with that quote.

I'm not saying anyone is wrong or right for not liking the visual effects that inserted Tarkin and Leia into Rogue One. That's a matter of opinion. But it frustrates me at times to see inaccurate statements, assumptions and/or opinions reported as if they're facts in some of the articles on this site. Statements such as the first quoted one above, which, while entirely unnecessary, would at least be better rephrased as something like, "We'll never know whether Cushing would have been happy with the way he was recreated on screen with a mixture of VFX and stand-in Guy Henry, but the results were met with a mixed reaction." And the statement about Carrie Fisher being dead when Rogue One was made/released is just definitively wrong.

But anyway, those are just my two cents on how this article is constructed.

Please just recast the character if you absolutely have to include this [frick]ing character again. CGI'ing dead actors in the name of fan service is just so creepy and shouldn't happen.

It was pretty amazing what they managed to do, but I don't know if I want to see him or this type of technology return. If they start using this more often without very good reason, I'm afraid using likeness from the dead will become mainstream very quickly