George Lucas to reanimate the dead?

The myth: A frankly bonkers story has eminated from 80s comic Mel Smith, who has claimed that former colleague George 'Star Wars' Lucas is planning on bringing the dead back to life. "He's been buying up the film rights to dead movie stars in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together in a movie," Smith told The Daily Mail. "So, you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck appear alongside today's stars."

True or false? Smith might not be the most reliable source, given his disastrous relationship with George Lucas while working on The Radioland Murders. Also, he pours scorn on "the last two Star Wars movies" so he's hardly an authority on all matters Lucas. We're writing this off as a mad rant.