10 Movie Scenes Changed After The Actor Died

The Star Wars sequel trilogy was thrown into disarray when Carrie Fisher unexpectedly died in late 2016. For though Fisher had already filmed her role as Princess Leia in The Last Jedi, principal photography hadn't yet started on The Rise of Skywalker.

This resulted in Leia's arc being significantly altered for threequel, but in a highly unorthodox move, the scenes which were changed had actually already been shot.

In order to give Leia as much presence as possible in the finale to the Skywalker Saga, unused footage of Fisher shot during The Force Awakens was repurposed for The Rise of Skywalker, with her original performance being digitally rotoscoped out and placed within a new environment.

It's been confirmed that The Rise of Skywalker was initially intended to be a Leia-centric movie, and that Fisher would've had a much larger role had she lived, with Leia probably not dying - or at least not in the fashion that she ultimately did.

For all of the movie's many issues, Abrams at least did a laudable job keeping Leia in the movie despite Fisher's death, to the extent that if you didn't know she had passed, you'd probably never guess while watching the movie.