10 Recent Movies Where The Reshoots Were Obvious

Jungle Cruise ultimately turned out pretty well, despite finally being released over three years after it first began shooting.

Its release was delayed due to both the pandemic and the need to conduct reshoots to fine-tune the picture, amounting to a few days in the summer of 2019.

Curiously, it was around the time that principal photography was completed that the film began to receive backlash for reportedly casting Jack Whitehall, a straight man, to play a "stereotypically camp" gay man.

It didn't help matters that the film's marketing seemed to be hiding Whitehall's character, MacGregor Houghton, from audiences, possibly in response to the bad PR, and so rumours began to spread that the character was ultimately being tweaked in reshoots.

While we don't know for sure what exactly was changed during the reshoots, MacGregor is ultimately a fairly respectful, not-entirely-stereotypical portrayal of a gay person, so it seems highly likely that the reshoots reconfigured his character somewhat.

The much talked-about scene where MacGregor comes out to Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) in particular reeks of a reshoot, as if Disney wanted to have their cake and eat it by portraying a gay character more positively but having him come out in a way that was innuendo-laden enough not to offend less-"tolerant" international markets.