Cushing, who portrayed Grand Moff Tarkin in the 1977 film Star Wars: A New Hope, died of cancer in 1994. After Cushing's death, Tarkin has been largely ignored in the Star Wars world, with the ...

Two decades after his death, Cushing appeared in Rogue One - now Grand Moff Tarkin is at the centre of a court case over image rights Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin), Carrie Fisher (Princess ...

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 ...

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 to ...

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 ...

A legal battle that has been brewing for years is now going to trial, with a High Court ruling that Tyburn Film Productions can proceed with their lawsuit against Disney/Lucasfilm for using the late ...

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. In the film, the deceased actor was ...

The excellent Rogue One famously used CGI to recreate Grand Moff Tarkin. Horror legend Peter Cushing, who played the character in 1977's Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, died in 1994 aged 81.

Film producer Kevin Francis has filmed a lawsuit against Disney's digital recreation of Peter Cushing's Grand Moff Tarkin in Rouge One: A Star Wars Story. As reported by The Times, an old friend ...

Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, agreed to have her body subjected to the relevant CGI, but Rogue One faced a challenge when it came to replicating and de-aging Peter Cushing, who played ...

A friend of the late Peter Cushing is suing Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm for their CGI recreation of Cushing in “Rogue One,” 22 years after the actor’s death. Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in ...