Is Star Wars creator George Lucas planning to digitally reanimate dead movie stars and insert them into a CGI film of his own devising? Uh, no.

The "I cast dead people" scenario that's making the rounds on the web is not true, according to Lucasfilm spokesman Josh Kushins. "This rumor is completely false," he told Wired.com in an e-mail Monday.

The wild rumor, which was picked up by news outlets around the web, started after Mel Smith, who directed Lucas' Radioland Murders script back in 1994, was quoted in London tabloid The Daily Mail.

"[Lucas has] been buying up the film rights to dead movie stars," Smith reportedly told the paper, "in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together in a movie, so you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside today's stars."

Still, it got us thinking: If you could bring back a Hollywood talent from the grave and put him or her in a scene from the Star Wars saga, who would you resuscitate and why? Comment below.

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