- A new Force Ghost. While it obviously cannot be the 2004 version, Shaw’s isn’t much better. After the “I am your father” twist, which puts Vader as still a regular human at least 9 months before Luke is born, it means he’s in his 50s, guessing Anakin was in his 30s when Luke was born, PT notwithstanding. Shaw doesn’t look the part at all - in fact, he looks older than Guinness! So I would love a new ghost, an aged-up Hayden, but unfortunately I don’t know how that could come to be.
I have a fairly shrewd idea, should stock footage be insufficient.
- Use a double of Hayden, wearing an outfit similar to the original Shaw outfit or a color-flipped version of Anakin’s ROTS outfit (brown becomes tan and black becomes brown) and a wig (to match the TROS: Ascendant footage).
- Deepfake Hayden’s face upon the double, who basically recreates Shaw’s facial movements.
- Add some age to the deepfake, if possible.
There are only two shots that need this creation - the full 1983 ghost shot (for maximum utility) and the distant image of the spirits. It should not be too hard to replicate this with any prosumer camcorder these days alongside an appropriate background for keying. Heck, Adywan’s “third unit” already did this a few times for Vader and rebel troops.