10 Most Unnecessary Times Star Wars Used CGI

The Book of Boba Fett stoked considerable controversy when it trotted out a post-Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker, achieved by transplanting a digital likeness of a younger Mark Hamill over the top of a stand-in performer, Graham Hamilton.

This certainly wasn't a new trick, though - The Mandalorian's second season similarly used a double, Max Lloyd-Jones, but what made The Book of Boba Fett's trickery feel more redundant is just how much of a mind-boggling physical resemblance Hamilton bore to a young Mark Hamill.

Once behind-the-scenes materials were released showing Hamilton on-set with motion capture dots on his face, fans took to social media to ask why the filmmakers even bothered with the VFX shenanigans when Hamilton already looked so much like Hamill.

While there's obviously more to a convincing Luke Skywalker performance than simply looking the part - his voice, in this case, was created with an AI program - the enormous expense of all that uncanny CGI feels like a waste of time when you can just... use a guy who looks like him.

Surely just having Hamilton or another actor play young Luke would've saved tons of money and effort, while avoiding all the uncomfortable hand-wringing about the ethics of "digital de-aging" tech.