10 More Movies Where The Reshoots Were Painfully Obvious

6. Game Of Death

Game Of Death
Golden Harvest

When Bruce Lee passed away leaving his final film Game of Death incomplete, production company Golden Harvest brought in Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse to finish the movie via a range of workaround solutions.

Using two stand-ins to capture additional footage and reshoot some of Lee's scenes that Golden Harvest actually misplaced (100 minutes' worth, if the reports are to be believed), Clouse completed the film, but sections of it looked like they were cobbled together by Victor Frankenstein.

The problem is that the doubles - Kim Tai-jong and Yuen Biao - barely resembled Lee, something the movie couldn't hide in the reshot sequences and new footage. The problem is most prevalent during the scene where Kim is standing in front of a mirror, on which a crude cut-out of Lee's likeness was taped to cover the stand-in's face.

Thanks to the footage Lee left behind and otherwise strong production values, Game of Death turned out surprisingly decent overall, but the reshoots and other techniques used to hide the protagonist's absence left much to be desired.

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