The show must go on.
was a huge success — winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards and grossing $460 million worldwide — but it ran into serious trouble when costar Oliver Reed, 61, died of a heart attack before completing his character's climactic scene, where he helps Russell Crowe's Maximus escape prison.
The production team originally discussed reshooting all of Reed's scenes, but doing so would have been incredibly expensive and might not have even been possible as they shot his scenes on location.
Instead of cutting her out of the film, director J.J. Abrams decided to take unused scenes of Fisher fromto create original scenes that could fit into the new film's plot. This took a lot of creative thinking on the part of Abrams and co-screenwriter Chris Terrio. Abrams,"We started looking at what these shots were; we started writing scenes around these shots, completely new contexts, new locations, new situation...
A lot of visual effects work was also needed to make the older footage work . In general, Fisher's facial expressions were from actual, earlier footage, but her body and movements were created by CGI. Love it or hate it, you can't deny the filmmakers succeeded in making Princess Leia a part of the last
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