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Is it right to resurrect actors using CGI?

Peter Cushing died in 1994, yet curiously he reprises his famous role of Grand Moff Tarkin in the new recently-released Star Wars film Rogue One. Lawyer John Enser of Olswang, actor Malcolm Sinclair and film critic Catherine Bray consider Hollywood's increasing use of CGI in giving film actors a screen life well beyond the grave, from the early days of Peter Sellers in Trail of the Pink Panther and Oliver Reed in Gladiator. Samira Ahmed asks whether it's ethical or even any good.

First broadcast on Front Row, 5 January 2017.

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