If you recall, once news broke that Carrie Fisher sadly passed away at the end of 2016 Disney/LucasFilm were dead set on NOT using CGI to bring her back.
Instead, the great minds at Disney/LucasFilm had a better idea and Oscar Isaac has revealed that some of the unused Carrie Fisher footage has made its way into Star Wars 9. Read on…
While on #TellMeJohn yesterday, @netflix ‘Triple Frontier’ actor & @starwars star Oscar Isaac spoke to @JohnFugelsang about the effects parenting has had on his craft & the joys of working with the late Carrie Fisher
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CelebNMovies247.com reports Oscar Isaac reveals some of that footage revolves around the growing bond between General Leia Organa and Poe Dameron.
Let’s not forget when Star Wars 9 was officially announced with J.J. Abrams in the director’s chair, Lucasfilm stated Leia was not returning as a CGI character. They wanted to have Star Wars heart of the project remember in the best light possible. Carrie Fisher’s previously unused and unseen footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi would be used to facilitate scenes for Star Wars 9.
Oscar Isaac had this to say about the unused footage making it into the movie.
Issac weighs in:
I wasn’t surprised because I remember we were doing that, we worked a lot. (Fisher) and I worked together so much. We would talk about the scenes, and we got very tight during the shooting of that. So it was a beautiful thing to see, and it gets carried over into the new film as well.
What truly made Fisher’s family happy is that Abrams made sure to get permission from Fisher’s family beforehand. Fisher’s family, including her daughter, Billie Lourd, were okay with her image being used in Star Wars 9. They’re more than likely happy that it was never an option to recast the iconic character or use technology to bring Princess Leia back.
