Marilyn Monroe Back on the Big Screen?

Star Wars creator George Lucas has embarked on his most ambitious project ever, a film which will use computer wizardry to bring icons like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean alive on screen.

The sci-fi icon has been buying the film rights to dead movie legends to put them together on screen, reported Sun online.

British comedian Mel Smith, a long-time collaborator of the filmmaker, said that Lucas is planning a casting coup which combines Hollywood icons with new-age stars.

Smith who directed Lucas's 1994 film Radioland Murders, said Lucas was obsessed with computer-generated imagery.

"George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you'd have Orson Welles and Marilyn Monroe alongside today's stars," said Smith.

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