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Lloyd’s Braced for $50mn Carrie Fisher Star Wars Claim

14 points by alexbilbie 10y ago

h4nkoslo 10y ago
I would be interested to know what the premium was.
- ars 10y ago
  You could probably get an order of magnitude estimate by looking up the price of a $1 million term life insurance policy for someone her age and multiplying. I assume they would get some kind of "bulk" discount, but it'll at least give you an idea.
  - SilasX 10y ago
    I think the OP was referring how she was not a typical woman of her age, and had the long history of drug use -- hence why they had to use Lloyd's rather than Liberty Mutual.
gremlinsinc 10y ago
Maybe it's too soon, but I wonder what Disney will do about ep9. I'm thinking she may have been extremely central to the storyline, perhaps some sort of mother/son/prodigal son forgiveness story like Luke and Vader in RotJ, but sadly that can't happen now, and I think it'd be disrespectful --especially while her family is still in mourning, to pull some crazy CGI stunts and bring her back to life.
- woofyman 10y ago
  >pull some crazy CGI stunts and bring her back to life. That would require a prior contract or the permission of her estate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Celebrities_Rights_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Celebrities_Right...
- CodeWriter23 10y ago
  I would hope rather than CGI, they use some disfiguring accident and makeup.
- eridius 10y ago
  I suspect the best path forward is simply to cast another actress. They needed CGI for Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One because those movies dovetailed right into A New Hope and the appearances of the actors were a core part of the identity of the characters, but honestly, while it was great to have Carrie Fisher reprise her role as 53-year-old Leia in Episode VII, it would have been perfectly acceptable for them to have cast another actress from the start. This brings to mind the Harry Potter series. The first two movies had Richard Harris playing Dumbledore, but then he died, so they simply recast the role and gave it to someone else, without any in-universe explanation for the change in appearance. And personally, I think Michael Gambon was a much better Dumbledore than Richard Harris.

14 points by alexbilbie 10y ago

h4nkoslo 10y ago

I would be interested to know what the premium was.

ars 10y ago
You could probably get an order of magnitude estimate by looking up the price of a $1 million term life insurance policy for someone her age and multiplying. I assume they would get some kind of "bulk" discount, but it'll at least give you an idea.
- SilasX 10y ago
  I think the OP was referring how she was not a typical woman of her age, and had the long history of drug use -- hence why they had to use Lloyd's rather than Liberty Mutual.

gremlinsinc 10y ago

Maybe it's too soon, but I wonder what Disney will do about ep9. I'm thinking she may have been extremely central to the storyline, perhaps some sort of mother/son/prodigal son forgiveness story like Luke and Vader in RotJ, but sadly that can't happen now, and I think it'd be disrespectful --especially while her family is still in mourning, to pull some crazy CGI stunts and bring her back to life.

woofyman 10y ago
>pull some crazy CGI stunts and bring her back to life. That would require a prior contract or the permission of her estate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Celebrities_Rights_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Celebrities_Right...
CodeWriter23 10y ago
I would hope rather than CGI, they use some disfiguring accident and makeup.
eridius 10y ago
I suspect the best path forward is simply to cast another actress. They needed CGI for Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One because those movies dovetailed right into A New Hope and the appearances of the actors were a core part of the identity of the characters, but honestly, while it was great to have Carrie Fisher reprise her role as 53-year-old Leia in Episode VII, it would have been perfectly acceptable for them to have cast another actress from the start. This brings to mind the Harry Potter series. The first two movies had Richard Harris playing Dumbledore, but then he died, so they simply recast the role and gave it to someone else, without any in-universe explanation for the change in appearance. And personally, I think Michael Gambon was a much better Dumbledore than Richard Harris.