I'm fascinated by the change in mores that appears to be concentrated solely in and around some US film studios that 'recasting = disrespectful and wrong' but 'weird computer trickery to create an uncanny version of the dad actor = fine and good'.
I know that I wasn't at all bothered by the recasting of Jack Torrance in Doctor Sleep, but it seems that I was in the minority.
Indeed. Genuinely how did someone decide that it was better to have 'weird, creepy and also expensive fake Peter Cushing puppeteered by Wayne Pygram' and not just 'Wayne Pygram'. Pygram's a terrific actor! He's great casting as Tarkin! Just do that!
Guy Henry with good make-up would have totally convinced as Tarkin in Rogue One without cgi-ing him into plastic zombie Peter Cushing.
I remember Kathleen Kennedy saying the "lesson" they learned from Solo was that you shouldn't recast iconic roles ... while promoting Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan series.
I feel like the only time it's acceptable are times where the person died part way through production keeping that last film as a memory of them or cases like what they were doing with mickey back in 2013 shorts
Meanwhile, Wyatt Russell is just so brilliant playing a young version of his Dad in the Monarch TV Show I think it’s frankly a damning indictment of Hollywood that Carpenter isn’t making a Snake Plissken film with him right now.
Mm, there's obviously an argument for e.g. what they had to do in the last Paul Walker Fast and Furious film but beyond that very grim - assumption the audience doesn't really care about what an actor has to contribute as you simultaneously try and trick them into thinking that actor is contributing
I love that typo!
If this is about a *current* movie they could simply have changed the character and it wouldn't have made any difference (probably made it better) If it isn't, disregard this :)
Living actors agreeing to it is what really baffles me. I guess Mark Hamill is ready to retire and not averse to a lorryload of cash but, even leaving aside the whole "making yourself and your trade redundant" thing, I find the idea of a dead-eyed zombie version of my younger self so creepy