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Chance Perdomo died in a motorcycle accident while traveling to Toronto to begin work on season 2 of Generation V. Instead of reformulating his role, the all season was rewritten and his death became a major plot point. Season 2 begins with a title card that reads “For Chance.” In the series, his character Andre dies while trying to help his friends escape from prison. His death ends up being a major driver of action in the rest of the episodes, especially for his on-screen father, Polarity (played by Sean Patrick Thomas).
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Philip Seymour Hoffman He died of a heroin overdose while filming. The hunger games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 – He only had 10 days of filming left on set at the time of his passing. Instead of recasting, executives considered using CGI to finish filming their scenes. However, after some minor rewrites, Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore’s characters took over some of his lines. In fact, the study included already existing projects. images of Felipe in scenes where his character would have been present.
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Richard Harris originated the role of Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets but died before the third film could be completed. Four months later, Michael Gambon was chosen to replace Dumbledore and continued playing him for the next six films in the series. harry potter franchise.
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Jim Varney played Slinky in toy story and toy story 2but died of lung cancer in 2000. His friend and fellow actor, Blake Clark, also known as the father of Shawn Hunter of The boy knows the world — replaced him and played the role of toy story 3 and Toy story 4.
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Paul Walker died in a car accident while filming fast and furious 7, but instead of recast To rewrite it, the studio spent $50 million to complete the film using a combination of CGI and Paul’s younger brothers as stand-ins for his character Brian. The production team FF7 He also merged archival footage of Paul’s voice with his brothers’ voices to fill in gaps in the film.
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Carrie Fisher died shortly after finishing her job on the last jedi in 2016. However, his last film appearance occurs in The Rise of Skywalker which had barely begun production at the time of his death. Director JJ Abrams didn’t want to recast or use CGI, but he wanted Leia to be part of the story, so he found unused film. images Carrie The force awakens. The writers were then able to create a scene that made sense for that footage.
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Cory Monteith, who played Finn Hudson in Joysadly died just before the cast returned from hiatus and began filming the show’s fifth season. Due to his unexpected death, filming was delayed and eventually the writers included Cory’s death in the series. In the show, they never explicitly reveal how Finn died out of respect for Cory. the series dedicated an integer Joy episode to Cory and called him “The Quarterback.”
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Aaliyah who originally cast as Zee in The Matrix: Reloaded and even filmed part of the film before dying in a plane crash in 2001. After her death, the studio held auditions for a replacement, and Nona Gaye, Marvin Gaye’s daughter, was chosen to play Zee in The Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix: Revolutions.
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John Ritter died in the middle of filming his series 8 simple rulesand the writers decided that his character Paul would also die of a heart attack. John had filmed the first three episodes of season 2 before his death; then the series went on hiatus. They returned with an episode dedicated to the death of their character.
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Heath Ledger died during filming The imaginary of doctor Parnassus and then reinvent For the role, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were hired to replace him. The script was reworked to show that as the main character traveled through different dimensions, his appearance also transformed, which was demonstrated by the addition of Johnny, Jude and Colin.
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Chris Farley was originally cast as shrek – the creators based Shrek and Donkey’s relationship on that of Chris and David Spade in Tommy Boy— and the recorded the voice for almost the entire film before his death in 1997. Mike Myers took over the role of Shrek and asked that the script be completely rewritten for his own style of comedy. Over the next three years, he recorded the new script in his own accent and again in the character’s signature Scottish accent.
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Luke Perry died while filming the series riverdale, and the writers decided to dedicate the premiere of the fourth season to the death of his character. In it seriesdies in a car accident after helping a woman whose car got stuck on the side of the road. She was played by Luke’s ex. 90210 co-star and friend Shannen Doherty.
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Nancy Marchand died while starring The Sopranos. Although her character died at the beginning of the show’s third season, series creator David Chase used visual effects to include Nancy in a final scene. Hey explained who was able to construct a scene using outtakes and unused footage of Nancy from previous seasons.
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Finally, Oliver Reed had almost finished filming his scenes in gladiator before dying of a heart attack. Instead of replacing it, producers used CGI to digitally graft your face onto a surrogate. Oliver died in the pub after challenging a group of sailors to “drinking debauchery”. Oliver had even promised director Ridley Scott that he wouldn’t drink on filming days, only on weekends.