If a future Yoda film were ever come to pass, the great man Frank Oz believes it would need to be CGI.
Speaking with IGN, Oz explained why that would be the case, and there’s a very good, practical reason.
“It won’t be a puppet. Believe me. That’s way too difficult for me. I rehearse a long time just to do one line of dialogue [as a puppeteer]. It would have to be [CGI], yeah. It would have to be. It’s far, far too difficult because I’m doing it with three other people. So it’s four people and you can’t just wing it. You’ve got to study every single word with four people.”
Yoda has never come close to his 1980 best in The Empire Strikes Back, and with the increasing detail afforded by CGI, it might prove to be the smartest route forward.
