What happens to movies when an actor dies?

I have not seen that movie. How do they deal with it?

Its about the director Ed Wood who was notorious for being one of the worst directors ever. Bela Lugosi died halfway through filming a movie and they brought in someone else and had him hold a cape over his face the whole time. That's a pretty silly example but I think The Crow did actually use a double after Brandon Lee died but that was only for one or two scenes and he was in shadows the whole time.

It really just depends on how far along they are in filming. Chris Farley had recorded around 85% of his lines for Shrek when he died and once they recast him with Mike Myers the animators had to redo the mouth movements for the entire movie. This ended costing a few million dollars extra and pushed the release date but it all worked out in the end.

F&F is kind of screwed because the only way you can really kill him in the movie that would make sense...would be by him dying how he died IRL. And theyll come out looking like assholes if they do that

Heath Ledger was filming Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when he died. They rewrote it and Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell all filled in as different aspects of his character.

Man, his death leaves a lot of people out of work. Think of how many people work on a movie, and this was a franchise with no end in sight.

I guess he's replaceable

Brandon Lee was shot while filming The Crow. LINK

They will probably rewrite the movie, minus Walker and just say that he moved and he's racing somewhere else or something. Seriously doubt that they will kill him off. F&F aren't exactly movies that you go see for the actors, so he'll be easily replaced. They'll probably bring in some young kid to be Vin Diesel's protege or something like that. I hate to sound so callous, but it's true.

"Game of Death" with Bruce Lee is the worst example of what can be done to a film when that happens.

Using a cardboard cut out..wtf.