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!
All the money they spent on making Hayley Atwell look old when they could have just hired Honor Blackman.
The digital necromancy in Alien: Romulus is a lot like Rogue One because he is a major character. It is not a 'cameo' - it is a sustained, repeated trick that every moment he is on scene you're like 'ah, there's that PlayStation 4 graphics-looking guy with a very bad vocal impression again!'
I liked the good old days solution of “casting a son to play the dead father’s role”.
I think the response to Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo led to Disney/Lucasfilm becoming more adverse to recasting (particularly Harrison Ford in Dial of Density, despite the history of multiple Indiana Jones actors!)
They didn’t even have Pygram come back for Rogue One, from what I understand.
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Especially when the fan base has already accepted Obi Wan being recast. Would they really care about whoever Cushing played?
It was aggravating every time I had to look at Zombo-Tarkin in that film, his face just... wasn't. If they had cast Pygram back again for it and let him Pygram around, that would've been preferable and not just because Farscape 4 Life
Every time it appeared onscreen I could just feel myself drifting away from the film mentally. I wish they’d just recast I’d have found it far less distracting.