10 More Movies Where The Reshoots Were Painfully Obvious
1. Star Trek Beyond
For the standards of your average blockbuster, Star Trek Beyond's production went incredibly smoothly, with director Justin Lin requiring just a single week of reshoots to tighten things up.
Curiously, though, the reshoots didn't occur until five months after principal photography wrapped, and less than four months before the sci-fi tentpole actually hit cinemas.
Paramount made it no secret that the reshoots were primarily in order to add the terrific Shohreh Aghdashloo to the cast as Commodore Paris, the commanding officer of Starbase Yorktown, which prompted much excitement among fans.
But as it turned out, Aghdashloo's role was disappointingly throwaway, running just a few minutes in length and ultimately adding little interesting or necessary to the film.
These choppy scenes draw immediate attention to themselves, and given that Aghdashloo had just begun to win plaudits for her role on hit sci-fi show The Expanse before the reshoots were announced, it's tough to shake the feeling she was thrown into the mix to try and hook some Expanse fans.
Watching Aghdashloo's thankless part in the final movie, you're either left to conclude her role was massively cut down, or as was actually the case, she was just desperately shoehorned into the film last-minute.