Star Wars Rogue One: 20 WTF Moments

4. CGI Princess Leia

Star Wars Rogue One Stormtroopers
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The movie ends with Princess Leia being handed the Death Star plans, and though the shot initially just shows her from behind, the camera then pans around to reveal a CGI rendering of a young Carrie Fisher.

By any objective metric, the attempt to recreate Fisher is pretty good...if we were playing a video game, but sadly it doesn't quite measure up in a movie being watched on the big screen. The fake Leia falls straight into the uncanny valley and feels like an over-the-top fan service moment when a more restrained over-the-shoulder shot would've been sufficient.

Hopefully this doesn't set a precedent moving forward with future anthology movies that we might see more of this.

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