10 Movies That Needed Reshoots For INSANE Reasons
The wild reasoning behind why these films needed to be reshot.
While once upon a time "reshoots" was an inherently dirty word bandied around the Internet, we should know by now that they're pretty much par the course for most major movies and hardly something to be instantly alarmed about.
Reshoots can range from simple pickup shots to fix continuity and fill small editorial gaps, to massive overhauls of story and character following poor test screenings.
Though badly integrated reshoots can stick out like a sore thumb, most of the time we're none the wiser.
Most reshoots happen for relatively obvious causes as mentioned above, but sometimes the cast and crew need to reunite for a very specific and unexpected reason that nobody saw coming.
And that's absolutely the case with these 10 films, each of which had some truly bizarre, surprising, even unhinged reasons for turning the camera back on.
Maybe a sex scene was a little too much for PG-13 audiences, an actor had to be erased from the film for the greater good, or the film stock was just straight-up ruined.
From nightmarish technical issues to insane behind-the-scenes troubles, these films all needed reshoots for some wildly unexpected reasons...
10. A Sex Scene Had Too Much Thrusting - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Let's kick things off with a truly ridiculous story now - the infamous reshot sex scene from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.
Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is the entry where loved-up protagonists Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) finally get down to it, and according to director Bill Condon, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart ended up returning to re-film the scene due to the pesky standards of the MPAA.
The ratings board took objection to the excessive "thrusting intercourse" in the sequence, with Condon saying of the matter that Stewart "got very into it" during shooting, enough that the film would've been slapped with an R rating had the scene been released as originally shot.
And so, a tamer, less thrust-filled version of the sex scene was subsequently filmed to appease the MPAA and ensure that millions of young teens could indeed go see the movie.