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10. Reshoots Took So Long The Actors Aged Out - The Mothership

In summer 2021, Halle Berry shot a new sci-fi family drama for Netflix called The Mothership, which was mounted as the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated writer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies).

A snippet of the film even showed up in the streamer's 2022 content preview, but in early 2024 they announced that the film had been permanently shelved, offering little concrete explanation beyond mentioning a challenging post-production process.

Reporter Jeff Sneider did some digging and learned that the main reason for the film's cancellation, despite being in an advanced state of production, was that the young central cast had aged noticeably since principal photography wrapped, making reshoots effectively impossible.

One can infer that the reshoots were substantial enough that it wouldn't be practical to digitally de-age the actors, but even so, tossing out an entire movie because reshoots couldn't happen in a timely fashion is wild.

Then again, it's possible the movie simply wasn't coming together satisfactorily, given that Netflix's chief content officer Bela Bajaria said "everybody just felt like it was the right thing to not do it." 

Considering some of the low-rent content Netflix has freely released over the years, that sounds pretty damning.