Looking further at the pinball examples, these seem kind of like they're just examples of recasting for an adaptation, which is so common it's not even a trope. With that said, pinball is not an area of expertise for me so maybe someone could give an honest look at that medium after the rest of the trope is clarified.
But I guess one key point is: Can adaptations "not quite star" the original cast? I would say no, again because it's universal for adaptations to recast people. But perhaps depending on marketing it might fit the trope, depending on how much it deviates from normal expectations of adaptations to the new medium.
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Does it have to be music? Because the movies "Like Mike" and "Bend it Like Beckham" attempted to cash in on the fame of (respectively) Michael Jordan and David Beckham, even though neither of them appeared in those movies.
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It doesn't have to be music, but it does have to "appear to star" the celebrity in some way rather than just reference them, so those films wouldn't count.
This trope might need a sub/supertrope or clarification about whether it:
I think there may already be related tropes (like Fake Shemp but not exactly?) to cover other fake-ins of actors, but not sure. But my instinct would be, points 1 and 2 do count, Rogue One does not.
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