THE PLATFORM
“ This is going to be one genie that’s hard to cram back into the bottle”
EMPIRE’S CHRIS HEWITT ON RESURRECTING ACTORS FOR THE SCREEN
THE NEWS THAT corporation’s are reluctant to accept death as the ultimate arbiter of availability for actors shouldn’t come as a shock. Audrey Hepburn flogged Galaxy chocolate bars long after her death. Ditto Steve McQueen for Ford Pumas. And on the big screen more recently, Peter Cushing and Harold Ramis were resurrected, via a combination of acting doubles and CGI, for Rogue One and Ghostbusters: Afterlife, respectively.