10 Movie Scenes Changed After The Actor Died

There's surely no single more infamous example of a movie scene changing following an actor's death than Twilight Zone: The Movie.

The anthology film's first short, "Time Out," starred Vic Morrow as Bill Connor, a flagrant racist who comes to learn the error of his ways when he's suddenly transported to Nazi-occupied France and suspected of being Jewish.

Originally, the short was intended to end with Bill seemingly redeeming himself by rescuing two Vietnamese children during the Vietnam War, before the twist ending saw both him and the children transported back to France during World War II.

In this ending, the children were to be taken away to be executed, while Bill would be sent to a concentration camp.

But after Morrow and the two actors portraying the Vietnamese children, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed during a helicopter accident on-set, the decision was made to change the ending.

First and foremost, the children were cut from the short entirely, denying Bill any sort of redemption and ensuring that when he's sent to the concentration camp at the end, the audience is quite happy to see him go.

Basically, the tragically ironic ending envisioned during shooting was reworked into a more broadly bleak "gotcha."