Ranking Every De-aging Movie Effect Ever

Rogue One is chock-full of mind-bending CGI technology. There's the typical Star Wars stuff, there's the digital resurrection of Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin (not quite the kind of de-aging we're talking about here, so it doesn't quite count), and then there's the de-aging of Carrie Fischer.

This is a moment that works so well because of both the careful structure and placement, as well as the brevity. After spending hours with the crew of Rogue One only to watch them all tragically give their lives to ensure the success of the mission, the film closes out as the Death Star plan's just barely escape the hands of Darth Vader himself.

As the camera soars through the halls of the Tantive IV, it settles on the white cloaked figure who is clearly Leia Organa. And just a few years earlier, this is where the film would have had to end, teasing the inclusion of a young Leia and it would have been more than enough. But here, the film goes the extra mile. Leia turns and faces the camera to speak a single line; "hope".

Upon first viewing, it felt flat-out unbelievable to see circa-1977 Carrie Fisher showing up at the end of the movie. Considering the fact that Fischer herself adored the cameo and that she would go on to die just weeks after the film was released, this moment has taken on all the more significance.