10 Recent Movies With Reshoots EVERYONE Noticed
These blatant reshoots stuck out like a sore thumb.
Once upon a time, many believed reshoots indicated that a given movie was in deep trouble, when, of course, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of big films go back for reshoots, from mere days to a couple of weeks.
Given the enormous complexity of any studio film shoot, often filmmakers only realise during post-production that something critical is lacking in the edit, or perhaps test screening feedback has led them to believe that some fine-tuning is in order.
Most of the time, reshoots slot effortlessly into the main shoot just fine, enough that we as audience members have no idea at all about them. But there are also times when the reshoots end up drawing attention to themselves, and that's absolutely the case with the following ten recent movies.
Perhaps a new character sticks out like a sore thumb, a certain actor has aged noticeably between the main shoot and reshoots, or the original footage featured in trailers is straight-up missing from the final movie. Whatever the reason, there was little mistaking the reshoot material in all these films, regardless of how they turned out overall.
10. Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World underwent many weeks of reshoots following poor test screenings, reportedly in an attempt to beef up the film's lackluster action sequences and also add a number of characters to the story.
In particular, reshoots added the supporting villain Sidewinder (Giancarlo Esposito), who shows up a few times throughout the picture as an obstacle to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and his fellow heroes. Yet Sidewinder and his goons are so obviously siloed off from basically the entire rest of the movie, such that it's incredibly obvious this footage was filmed later and just plugged into the existing material.
Elsewhere, fans know from set leaks that the movie's primary villain, The Leader (Tim Blake Nelson), originally had a more comic-accurate design with a large bulging head, but given that Nelson has a more pared-down mutated head in the final film, it's clear that he ended up reshooting every single one of his scenes.
Overall, Brave New World is a chaotic melange of tones and ideas, and even if you weren't aware of the production issues, it so constantly screams "reshoot!" at the audience.