"Glee" and other unexpected deaths in film and television - BBC News

Glee has won several awards, including Golden Globes and Emmys.

A toxic mix of drugs, “including heroin and alcohol”, was what led to the death of Cory Monteith.

actor who portrayed 31 years Finn Hudson in the popular American series “Glee” was found dead over the weekend in a hotel in Vancouver, Canada.

Not only were left mourning the death to the executives of the series. In addition to a sea of ??fans mourning the death of Monteith, production was confronted with the challenge of rethinking the future of the series, which next season would be released in less than two months.

But “Glee” is not the first-nor the last-production that has had to overcome an unexpected event.

Deaths, illness and even arrests of members of the team are cases that have faced writers and producers in the audiovisual industry.

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BBC deaths recounts celebrities who have threatened major productions of the audiovisual industry.

James Dean: live fast, die young …

James Dean was one of the first actors whose death occurred in the middle of a production.

“Live fast, die young”. A famous phrase, usually attributed to the superstar of the 1950s, James Dean.

The truth is that the phrase is not the actor but the movie “Knock on any door ” (“Hours of distress”) of 1949, starring Humphrey Bogart and John Derek. However, the saying was popularized after the death of Dean, a rebel icon.

137 kilometers per hour, a record for cars and roads of the era, Dean crashed his Porsche on September 30, 1955, before finishing the filming of “Giant”, a film also starring Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson.

The film was released a year later and although Dean had reached record most of his scenes, some of the dialogue had to be played by another actor.

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Three years after Dean’s death, another Hollywood star died suddenly in the middle of a shoot.

As our reader reminds Thomas Victor Hugo by BBC page on Facebook, Tyrone Power was filming “Solomon and Sheba” when he died of a heart attack on the set.

Power and his wife were in Spain during filming. While filming a scene of mourning with his partner and friend George Sanders, Power collapsed.

The actor had filmed more than half of his scenes. However, it was impossible to reconcile the remaining 25%, so that production Yul Brynner hired to replace him.

Not all was lost, though. Some shots, which appeared from afar Power were recycled.

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A double masked due to finish the scenes of Bela Lugosi.

In 1959, the same year the premiere of “Solomon and Sheba”, Hollywood also put on display another film quite special: “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.

Ed Wood’s film literally recycled shots that the director had done to one of his favorite actors: Bela Lugosi, famous for his interpretations of vampires.

Here there was no surprise or change of script, rather the opposite. “Plan 9 From Outer Space” containing recordings of Lugosi interspersed with a double of his scenes that even looked like him.

financing difficulties Wood allowed only short silent film scenes. And as Lugosi died three years before the arrival of total project funding, the director must find a plan b : the chiropractor of his wife, who turned to Lugosi covering his face with the layer in almost all his scenes.

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bar “Cheers” was opened in 2001 inspired by the hit series.

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writer were forced to squeeze your creativity to the maximum were the series “Cheers”.

-and long-popular sitcom American whose plot was based on the stories of the employees and customers of a bar in Boston suffered the loss of one of its players in 1985.

Nicholas Colasanto, who embodied the veteran coach, died of a heart attack.

The show acknowledged the death of his popular character and even moved a picture of it that was in his dressing room Colasanto a permanent place in the middle of the set the bar.

“The writers invented a new character, reverse Coach, Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson). Instead of a waiter stunned senior, he was a charming, simple innocent young newcomer to the big city. Woody tuned to the audience and became a popular and vital member of the show, “recalled Scott Huver, an expert on pop culture and entertainment in one column FOX411′s Pop Tarts.

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Another famous cases, this time for its rawness and legends that have emerged from the tragedy was the death of Brandon Lee.

Bruce’s son and star of “The Crow”, died on set after being shot referred to in the film, but with a bullet that was not saved, but real.

The accident happened days before shooting ended in March 1993, so most of the shots had already been made.

remaining details-mostly-retrospective scenes were completed with a double and digital effects.

Richard Harris: the death of Dumbledore immortal

Richard Harris managed to appear in the first two films of the Harry Potter saga.

In October 2002, a few weeks before the premiere of “ Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets “, the second film in the series inspired by the books of JK Rolling, the man who played Albus Dumbledore died in a London hospital.

Richard Harris, Irish actor who played the principal of magic of Harry Potter in the first two films in the series, had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a type of lymphoma two months earlier.

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then faced the difficult decision of who would be his replacement to continue the series, which results millionaires and threw a third of which should not be delayed.

chosen was another native of Ireland, Michael Gambon, who participated in the rest of the series.

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Warner Brothers must rethink its marketing strategy after the death of Heath Ledger.

One of the recent sudden death of the Hollywood industry was that of actor Heath Ledger, who portraying the Joker in “Batman. The Dark Knight”.

The actor, also known for his role in “Brokeback Mountain” and “10 Things I Hate About You”, was found dead in January 2008 in his apartment from an overdose of painkillers.

While the film was in post-production stage, the producers had to reassess their marketing campaign, as this was based on the character writing with blood Ledger “Why so serious?”.

Finally the film was a success and Ledger received a posthumous Oscar as supporting actor.