How Do You Feel About Movies Using Dead Actors?

It was bad enough when fictional stories brought back characters that had died. All they had to do was make their death a dream, or the character into a ghost, or switch to an alternate universe. Or just put them in a prequel. That trick may be annoying, but it's mostly harmless and done to please the audience. But it's a totally different thing to use actors who have passed on in real life to resurrect a popular character.

Many of us were surprised and somewhat disturbed when Rogue One used images of Peter Cushing, who had died 20 years earlier, to recreate the character of Grand Moff Tarkin. Cushing obviously had no control over the use of his face. Actor Guy Henry played Tarkin's body, but you have to wonder what will happen to Hollywood when actors are no longer needed and we just see the faces of Hollywood past over and over. The same technique was used in Superman Returns, The Flash, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. And we see it again in the new movie Alien: Romulus. There's also the creepy technique of using computer technology to make older actors look young again, but at least that is done with the involvement of the actor. Read about the rising trend of casting actors even after they die at Den of Geek. Note: the article contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus, and possibly other films you haven't yet seen.


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First I would want an agreement between the future corpse or their relatives giving permission to use that person's image in the future and compensating the living relatives.Secondly, after 100 years there would be no claim upon the deceased's body and/or works made by them prohibiting people from using them. No compensation.
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