#VERYHAPPY to see 'Rogue One : A Star Wars Story' trending on Twitter today 😲I can't help thinking that Peter Cushing would have very much loved the film too. Personally, I think #ROGUEONE is THE most beautiful cinematic #StarWars film of the whole series!
The #Sideshowtoys figure of #PeterCushing as Grand Moff Tarkin 'Star Wars' (1977) Quite an impressive figure. Apparently, #ForbiddenPlanet in Shaftesbury Avenue, #London has one in their figure display
cabinet opposite the checkouts!
JUST A FEW OF THE POST FROM THE LAST FEW MONTHS THEMED BY
PETER CUSHING AND THE ROLE OF TARKIN!
ABOVE: WE COULDN'T LET TODAYgo by without seeing this one more time! SEE ITHERE!
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEWwith actor GUY HENRY who played Tarkin in the film 'ROGUE ONE' his methods on playing the role and the technical expertise behind creating TARKIN for the film : RIGHT HERE!
AND FINALLY.. my appalling post and banner for APRIL FOOL'S DAY this year. Surprisingly, it DID actually net a few 😃😊😉 HAVE GREAT MAY FOURTH!
#WATCHWITHCUSHING!
'Is it wrong to love THE Rogue One? Well, here's a confession, I am
very fond of this film and have a lot of respect for what Industrial
Light and Magic and Guy Henry achieved in the finished film. We've posted a feature about this today at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE . .. For
those not up to speed with what happened four years ago...here we go! In
the 2016 anthology film '#RogueOne',
archive footage and a digital scan of Cushing's life mask made for the
1984 film Top Secret! were used to create a 3D CGI mask which was
augmented and mapped to actor Guy
Henry's face. Henry had studied Cushing's mannerisms many years
previously for the lead role in British TV show 'Young Sherlock', but
insisted on a screen test as he was not comfortable that his vocal
imitation was accurate, stating he sounded more like "Peter O'Toole than
#PeterCushing".
THE ILM team searched through hours of footage to find suitable
material of Cushing to build from, footage from 'A New Hope' was lit
very differently to the lighting used in 'Rogue One' and had to be
digitally changed. The more they manipulated the lighting to match the
other actors in the scenes the less like Cushing the character model
looked, which meant creating a balancing act between "a digital figure"
and "one who looked precisely like Cushing". The owners of Cushing's
estate were heavily involved with the creation and had input right down
to "small, subtle adjustments".
ABOVE: THE PCASUK STORY ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY!
THE RESULT, which has been called "one
of the most complex and costly CGI re-creations ever", received a mixed
response. Recently, Derpfakes who is quite the dab hand at creating some
quite stunning CGI creations and sharing them for critiques on YouTube.
Here for your analysis, is his tweaking and nudging, of the ILM job on
Tarkin's appearance in 'Rogue One' (2016) ... There are some interesting
chances... for some I am sure, there will be little difference. Later,
if you like me have always thought the ideas and concepts of 'Star Wars'
were very original and new, join us later 😉 - Marcus
TODAY WE ARE MARKING a birthday of an actor, that just a few years ago any Cushing or Star Wars fans and the actor involved would never have believed if you told them, how the three would connect! When the idea of bringing Tarkin back to the big screen, this actor was very busily working in a UK soap drama... and then come the beginning of December2016 he was thrust into the spotlight, following huge anticipation for the arrival of the STAR WARS movie, #ROGUEONE. But remember, Henry wasn't just playing any character though, this was a role that would split the opinion of Cushing fans, movie goers and Star Wars Followers, the world over.... A Job Well done, Mr Henry 😉 A VERY Happy Birthday to you, have a great day!
A FOOTNOTE to this post, as it appears on the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE'On the subject of Tarkin CGI' 'This is one of those little nuts that is never going to be cracked. I think, like all things about film, it depends on your personal perspective... on the week Rogue One was released I did a live ...hour long...interview on WGN radio about the film. I knew, it was going to be tricky. The angle really was 'What do you think? should they have done it, was it ok to put a CGI Cushing of Tarkin in the film?'... and I stand on what I said back then. You'll never please everyone no matter how good the CGI is.. but more to the point, they had the OK of Cushing's estate to do it . . knowing PC well, I trust their judgement. As for the point of, 'It ain't REAL!'... well, I hate to burst your bubble, but hey, this is Star Wars.. it's a fantasy, nothing you are seeing up there is real.. it's a movie.vWould Cushing have ok'ed the idea? Well, as you would have seen from many posts we have shared with here, we are talking about a man who 'created' toy theatres and model actors, he spent months making figures, painted water colours and oils, spent time on the floor setting up his model soldiers, re-enacting battles in his 'miniature gaming', re-creating . . you decide... ;)' - Marcus (pcas)
OUT NOW! ISSUE 155 of the magazine '#FILMFAX' has the cast of the 1983 film 'The
House of the Long Shadows' #VincentPrice, #ChristopherLee, #PeterCushing and #JohnCarradine... as part of their #Halloween issue, there is
a feature on the film . . . it got a bit of a slapping on its release
and after years of a grotty quality VHS release finally made a grand re
entrance on blu ray.
ABOVE AND BELOW: 'The House Of The Long Shadows' : The House That Armstrong and Walker built!' Parts ONE and TWO HERE!
DEPENDING on which release you buy, the extras will range from very good to 'well that is just weird' ... I will say no more. Nice cover. But that pose of Cushing, always looks cut and pasted to me...
OPINIONS ON THE CGI TARKIN that appeared in the 2016 film 'ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY' will probably be forever divided. Some say, it ALMOST works. Others, that it's just not LIFE LIKE, let alone CUSHING as TARKIN. While some like myself believe, it DOES . .. 98% of the time. I have always seen each STAR WARS movie, as a separate movie...despite the continuity thread of the stories.
EACH FILM IS NEW. Each film has it's own time to entertain and work. Despite whatever the prequel or any other releases signal or flag up, the job is to work. Many audiences today, judge the success and entertainment value, on what has happened before. If it is a remake, a sequel of prequel, it takes that test. It applies for completely NEW films too, with NO association to a series or similar theme.
WE SUSPECTED here at PCAS, like many others, that the CGI was coming. Just for a short time, CUSHING was BUZZING! When the release of the film arrived, newspapers, tv news, magazines and the net, carried opinions and images. For five months, CGI brought Peter Cushing BACK to world. I think ROGUE ONE is an amazing film and the appearance of a CGI Peter Cushing as Tarkin, is magic. For me, it always will be . .
LITTLE DID PETER CUSHING know back in 1976, when he was shooting STAR WARS, that one little decision he made, after feeling the PINCH of his leather TARKIN boots, talk about his performance would not only be about how he played such a tyrant . . but the word SLIPPERS, would also be forever associated too.
NEXT WEEK: CHRISTOPHER LEE'S TIME WITH STAR WARS AND DOOKU!
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY! #NEWS:
To celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Hammer House of Horror in High
Definition Network have announced they are giving away a facsimile of
an original script with each Blu-ray set ordered only direct from them.These
specially printed reproductions contain the original Hammer shooting
scripts together with the additional pink amendment pages introduced
during production, all courtesy of the Hammer archive at de Montfort University, ITV and Hammer Film Productions.
THE ARE JUST 500 copies available of each of Children of the Full Moon, The
Silent Scream, The Mark of Satan and The Two Faces of Evil and these
will be dispatched separately to your Blu-ray before the end of
November. Your Blu-ray will be dispatched on or before the release date.
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY!
What a great way to start our themed TUESDAY, marking the birthday,
that just two years ago, was an actor busily working in a UK soap
drama... and then last December was thrust into the spotlight, following
huge anticipation for the arrival of the STAR WARS movie, #ROGUEONE.
Henry wasn't just playing any character though, it was a role that
would split the opinion of Cushing fans, movie goers and Star Wars
Followers, the world over.... A Job Well done, Mr Henry 😉 A VERY Happy Birthday to you, have a great day!
IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.
Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help
us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The
Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and
youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS
coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA . .
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY!
Probably the strangest thing I have ever found included in the images
of a US Lobby Set.... but VERY good indeed. A Throw Back to 1958 and the
Horror of Dracula / Dracula from Hammer films. I disguarded piece of
production or promotional artwork, ends up on a lobby card! 🙂 What do you think of it?
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY!
. . . . Industrial Light and Magic building Peter Cushing's Grand Moff
Tarkin, from the feet up, with actor Guy Henry in 'Rogue One : A Star
Wars Story' (2016) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
DISNEY AND LUCASFILM were able to bring the look of the original 1977
movie back to the big screen with modern film making technology. Perhaps
the most impressive achievement amidst all that attention to detail was
the film’s uncanny ability to convincingly bring Peter Cushing’s
character, the Grand Moff Tarkin, back to life on the screen. Here Guy
Henry is outfitted with a motion-capture suit and head-mounted gear to
preserve the actor’s moves and facial expressions, which were ultimately
overlaid with Cushing’s likeness. The rig affixed to Henry almost looks
like a device straight out of a sci-fi movie on its own.
IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.
Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help
us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The
Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and
youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS
coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA
